Archive for La Défense
from my office
Posted in pictures with tags bois de Boulogne, La Défense, Paris, sunset on February 6, 2013 by xi'an
from my office
Posted in pictures, University life with tags bois de Boulogne, cranes, La Défense, Paris, Université Paris Dauphine, winter light on January 26, 2013 by xi'an
La Défense skyline (sunset)
Posted in pictures, University life with tags bois de Boulogne, La Défense, Nanterre, Université Paris Dauphine on December 16, 2012 by xi'an
more experiments
Posted in pictures with tags La Défense, miniature pictures, Paris, Sceaux on May 19, 2012 by xi'an
recommendation week
Posted in Kids, University life with tags La Défense, Paris, recommendation, students, Université Paris Dauphine on April 2, 2012 by xi'an
This week, as the deadlines for next year applications get close, I had to write a dozen of recommendation letters for some of my students. Some of those students I knew well as they were in my english R class or in my graduate courses, but others were unknown to me. The most frustrating emails are those of the kind
Je suis so-and-so et j’ai suivi votre cours de Statistique exploratoire et numérique au premier semestre. Je vous écris ce mail car je souhaiterais postuler l’année prochaine there-and-there. Il m’est demandé de fournir dans mon dossier deux lettres de recommandations, c’est donc pour cela que je vous demande si vous pouvez m’écrire une lettre de recommandation.
(I am so-and-so and I took your course Exploratory and numerical Statistics during the first semester. I am writing this mail because I plan to apply next year to there-and-there. I am required to include two recommendation letters in my application file, this is why I would like to ask you to write a recommendation letter.)
composed as if writing a recommendation letter did not require any information about the recommended student! Or maybe they think I know every one of the 180 of them…
