Re: tooting my own horn

From: Craig Chambers (chambers@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 18:39:53 PST

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    Congratulations! My tutorial was ranked #8 for overall impression, but I'm sure
    you were way ahead of me for preferred tutorial presenters. Just think what
    your numbers would have been if you'd not been ill!

    -- Craig

    Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
    >
    > Ok, this is really own-horn-tooting, but I thought it's nice to share it.
    > After all it's about our department and group just as much. Just got the
    > evaluations from the oopsla tutorials, which were pretty favorable to the
    > aop tutorial I taught (#16).
    >
    > Of the 53 tutorials, tutorial 16 ranked 12th at "overall impression," with
    > 3.15 points out of 4 (0 = awful, 4 = great). Also, yours truly ranked an
    > honorable place 6 in the top preferred tutorial presenters.
    >
    > There's some adventure to it. First, one evening before the printout
    > deadline I discovered a fatal flaw in an idea that the original tutorial
    > presenter was having, flaw that rendered about 30% of the material useless.
    > So I reworked the thing until literally the last minute, and I mean
    > *literally*. Second, I had the flu the day I talked, but under the effect of
    > the adrenaline (I guess), the flu held back for the 3:30 hours of the
    > tutorial... after which it resumed. Quite weird :o\.
    >
    > Andrei
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