"The energy says we're starting somewhere
way up here, somewhere high in energy."
Often times students will come in and say
they hated chemistry in high school.
90% of the time, the student says "I hated
my teacher, my teacher was terrible" which
has nothing to do with liking or not liking
chemistry, so it's a real challenge trying
to take that student and change them into
somebody or give them the opportunity to change
themselves into someone that appreciates the
science.
"We've got the structure of CO2, what is that
conversion."
"I knew Professor H from when I TA'd for him
in Chemistry, he's very approachable with
the students."
"I thought somebody was raising their hand
over there, they were just patting their friend
on the head."
"I think he understand that students who come
into the intro chem program here come from
different backgrounds.
Some students have taken AP Chem, for some
this is there first class.
I think he really tries to design the lectures
in a way thats really supportive to those
taking chemistry for the first time, but then
with supplementary homework problems or workshop
problems he really tries to challenge his
students, all of them."
"So how would you go about doing that?"
"Well I took the grams of the product, add
it up and pray to god its the same amount
of grams.
"Right, right, exactly, I think the praying
is a really good part of that."
"Good afternoon, I'm Dr. Hafensteiner, and
I'll be your professor for Chemistry 131."
"So the prank was for our college radio show
the Chamber Boys, when we approached Dr. H,
we said we wanted 5 minutes to do whatever
we wanted to do, he said 'Oh it's fine, whatever
you do I can fix.'"
"One thing you should know about this class,
this class is extremely hard..."
"Patrick played an unbelieveable me, well
a very believeable me I guess.
He was there for the first three minutes or
so of class, then I came in and kicked him
out."
"Who the hell are you?"
"I can't believe that its, I checked yesterday
and its something like 8.6 million hits on
that video."
"Okay so that guy is not Dr. H, I'm Dr. H."
"When I came in i was able to set the record
straight and tell people, look this class
is structured so that you can succeed, and
there's nothing about this class that's structured
in a way that's going to force you to fail."
"If you have your clicker, take it out."
"If I'm taking a class from anybody that's
bored, I'm going to be bored.
The only way for me to stay interested is
to continuously refresh things, and that doesn't
mean just notes, it also means things like
i-clickers, I brought i-clickers into the
class, which allow students to actually answer
questions, not on a 1 by 1 basis, and we can
get numbers and I can show abr graphs of who
thinks its a and who thinks its b."
"That tells me that probably only a quarter
of the people who are here got the right actual
answer, so let's look at where you can run
into trouble in solving this problem."
"The best barometer for me of seeing whether
or not students are understanding what I'm
bringing to them is Office Hours."
"Once your comfortable with these pieces going
into the ionic form..."They have a question
about something that I talked about in lecture
and we straighten that question out and bring
a general sense of understanding to the topic
that they're working on."
"Once you have that molar value, you can calculate
how many grams it was..."
"I love being able to help people, which is
really why I love the teaching because I'm
able to help people on a daily basis, and
help a lot of people if I'm doing my job well."
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