On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:28 AM Yale N. Patt <patt@ece.utexas.edu> wrote:

My students,

A few things.

I am told that some of you wanted to ask questions during Monday's class,
but did not want to interrupt me. Perhaps that is why we got through so much
stuff on Monday. :-) This is one of the problems with the current model. 
Unless I can figure out a better way, if you have a question, please interrupt
me at the end of one sentence and before I start the next and ask the question.
I would rather be interrupted and try to answer your question than leave you
with a question in your mind and no answer.

One of the groups turned in documentation to Aniket and me this evening. 
I looked at it just to be sure what was in it. The sheets that were not
done by hand were perfectly legible, but the sheets that were hand drawn
were hard to read. I am very okay with you doing this by hand. But I need
to be able to easily read what you write. So, please make your lettering
dark enough and large enough for it not to be a problem for me.

Third, I mentioned the course evaluations on Monday. The university would
like each of you to fill out the course evaluation for both me and Aniket
at some point in the semester. Normally I have students do this on paper
forms as the last thing we do in the last class of the semester. As I said,
what I would really like is to have you fill out these forms 5 years from now
when you can better evaluate what you got out of the course. Unfortunately,
that is not possible, although I do get some email five years later. This year
I have no control over the process. You will be informed at some point to
fill out the forms electronically any time between then and the end of classes.
I would appreciate it very much if (a) you do fill out the forms, (b) you do
so during the week of May 4, after our last class meeting, and (c) you feel
free to write any comments you have at the bottom of the form. I do read
every one of them.

See you in class tomorrow (Wednesday).

YNP