Despite what the calendar says, today was Friday.
At least it was at my college, Villanova University.
Our course schedule has three options for class meetings:
- Monday-Wednesday-Friday for 50 minutes
- Tuesday-Thursday for 75 minutes,
- Monday-Wednesday for 75 minutes.
In order to ensure that there are equal class contact hours among the varying class schedules, there is typically a need to adjust the schedule at the end of the semester.
That adjustment took place today, on what is often referred to as “deeming day”.
Instead of attending their normal Tuesday classes, students attended classes as if it was their Friday class schedule.
In other words, today was deemed a Friday.
By doing so, all three of the class schedules noted above will end the semester this week having met for a total of 2,100 minutes (forty-two 50 minute classes or twenty-eight 75 minute classes).
So to celebrate the early start to the weekend, I’d thought I’d share one of the most popular, and unpopular, music videos of all time. Feel free to stop listening at any time…
*image from MemeGenerator
Couldn’t quite make it through the whole song, that voice may have hurt my ears. LOL!
Congrats on your Friday though! π
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I think at one point it was the most disliked song on YouTube, but then Justin Bieber song topped it. Unofrunately, YouTube no longer shares the number of dislikes…
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I like that tune, even while feeling my stomach beginning to churn. Well, enjoy your very long weekend.
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unfortunately the weekend was cut short because when I woke up today, it was Wednesday.
it’s too bad that YouTube no longer shows the number of dislikes on its videos; this one had several million. But I’d happily trade 158 million views for a couple million dislikes. I am sure she made some decent money from the video…
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Hmm. Something tells me that some of your students got a long weekend, but not you.
Yes, I wouldn’t mind being disliked by millions of people, if the price was right.
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especially since Villanova had a basketball game up in New York City last night, and I think a few students made the trip up there. Attendance will be down today…
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They must not be your brightest students. Aren’t they aware that they can’t hide their lack of attendance from an Accounting professor?
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especially in a class of just 25 students…
but if I were giving advice, I would have told them to go to the game. it’s all part of the college experience…
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You’re a good soul, Jim.
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that’s what I tell myself…
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lovely, Jim, are you on vacation now?
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it’s finals week nest week, and then I am finished until mid January!
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Very nice!
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it is one of the benefits of the job…
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If I were a student, I would like to have different options if I don’t have to listen to that song. π
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I did play the beginning of the song one Friday morning in class; I am sure it was the highlight of the class for the students. which says something about my lectures…
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Happy Friday! Though I could report you for sharing that video π
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yes, sharing that video was a violation…
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freaky Friday
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strangely enough, when I woke up today it was Wacky Wednesday!
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one never knows what it will be on this schedule –
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covid has turned the world upside down…
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I love Fridays as we have a food truck visit the office on Fridays. Sadly, I stood outside my entire lunch hour and he never showed up. I guess it wasn’t Friday for everyone. Happy Deeming Day, my friend!
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well if you wait long enough, those food trucks will eventually show up π
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I somehow managed to go my whole life (to this point) without knowing this song existed. I couldn’t make it through the whole video, but I suspect the song will be lingering in my head for hours anyway. Sigh.
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I’m sorry to do that to you! But now you know to avoid it in the future… π
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A weird custom, but I guess it works. Iβd never heard that song before – and I hope I never hear it again. Like, everβ¦
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I’m sorry I put you through that. But at least you’ll know to avoid it in the future. I believe at one point is was the most disliked song on YouTube, but then a Justin Bieber song surpassed it. Unfortunately, YouTube no longer reveals such numbers…
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As I said when you posted about it recently, I think it was a mistake on YouTubeβs part to remove the βdislikeβ figure. I checked this one out: it has 157m views (!) but I wonder how many of those hit the dislike button? Iβm hoping it was somewhere above 156m. I also think we should be shown those figures with an age breakdown, as Iβm guessing the only age group that would have a net positive figure is the under 8sβ¦
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I’d happily trade 156 million views for all thos dislikes.
and the video came out 10 years ago, so those 8-year olds you mention are in my class this semester, and I played the song for them once this semester. I think I saw a few smiles around the room π
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Did you compare the number of grimaces with the smiles? A piece of research for you there, I thinkβ¦
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and by gender…
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I can see youβre already working on itβ¦
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π
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Hahaha omg this song π€£π€ͺ
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yes, it was a love or hate kind of song. but it has 156 million views. I’d be happy with that π
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Happy Friday!!! π
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unfortunately, I woke up it and it was Wednesday… π
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Ahhhh…. I remember that song. My husband’s work would play it every Friday for a good while. π
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I wonder if people stopped coming to work on Fridays just to avoid listening to it π
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Or ducked out early!
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I don’t know this song. Why is it both popular and unpopular? I wasn’t swayed either way by it. Although I did appreciate that the teenagers were played by… teenagers.
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apparently people either love it or hate it; at one point, it had the highest number of dislikes of any youtube video. a justin bieber song later topped it…
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Too bad they can’t deem everyday Saturday. Happy Hump Day!
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in a couple of years, at least for me, every day will be like Saturday… π
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That will be the day. ππ
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π
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I thought I had really over slept, as it’s only Thursday here.
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yea, when I woke up the next day, it was back to Wednesday… π
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I listened…I sort of grimaced and still listened… it’s akin to the marmite saga…but I would love those views π xx
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I’ve never tried marmite – not sure I ever will. but yes, those views would be exciting!
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No, you most probably won’t , Jim given that you are vegan but yes in total agreeance about the views even just doubling mine would be a bonus π x
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maybe that’s a good reason to stay vegan π
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