I've recently been involved in the formation of the Wits Undergrad Maths Society
This has involved going to a bunch of lectures and handing out sign up sheets. It's also involved a lot of talking to lecturers and other organizers to timetable this but I want to focus on the signup sheets.
Turns out that a fair number of students use there wits e-mail addresses and a fair number use something else (g-mail the most common). By inspection there seems to be a very very large correlation between what sheet you signed and which e-mail you put down. that is to say that some of the sheets are almost completely (or in some smaller cases completely) covered with students using there wits e-mail while others are almost devoid of student e-mails.
Presumably students look at the first few people putting down a wits e-mail address and decide to copy or see the first few haven't and decide to use the non-wits address. Anyone have any thoughts on what causes this?
It's *their*, dammit!
ReplyDelete