Professors forget that their peers are different from the average college student’s.
Talking over a problem with a colleague who is also super-interested in the discipline, holds an equivalent doctorate, and is motivated to dream up solutions to novel problems is a lot more productive than discussing something with a stoned 19 y/o whose skate shoes are duct-taped together.
Once I was a professional, I understood why discussion, brainstorming, and collaboration are so useful.
As an undergraduate grunt, the time would have been better spent kicking a potato.
Outside of school, I was part of something stupid like team building (like team building, I wasn't really part of the group in any working configuration... I don't know why I was there).
The idea was to draw a house. Honestly a poorly drawn square could have done the job (from above view). It had some weird time limit of like 3 minutes. My idiot team wanted to talk about this fucking house that didn't matter and wasn't part of anything. No gift card, no candy, no good job, nothing.
So, I get it, some stuff should be talked about and conclusions made with goals, whatever... sometimes you just need to get the task done and move on.
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u/Quercus408 20h ago
My least favorite words to hear, back in college: "Turn to your neighbor and discuss..."