It pays to know about your instructors. Here's a list of online documents you should read to familiarize yourself with me. Most of these have been posted to my blog.

• A general welcome to new students
• My home page
• My availability and a bit about what an academic's life is like
• The thermodynamics of teaching and power imbalances in the classroom
• Why I'm 9.25 times older than the average first-year student (as of 2013)
• Why am I such a hard-ass?
• Do you want to be strengthened or coddled?
• Watch good movies about the recent past to know where to go in the future
• You're not studying enough
• How many hours should a student spend studying?
• On the importance of composition skills
• personal productivity for students
• Underemployment is no cause for concern
• 14 Rules of Life
• What I think about thieves and other crooks on campus
• Two posts (here and here) about the evils of plagiarism
• On writing emails to your instructors
• Life Lessons by Tim Minchin
• Want to learn better? Take notes on paper and The art of taking notes