Sometimes it feels like my colleagues in other departments and I are playing tug-of-war, and our students are the rope.
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Tag Archives: academia
Syllabi
I actually finished writing my fall syllabi yesterday. One was for a new course, which was a lot of work but also fun to put together. For the courses I’ve taught before, the frustrating thing is that the semester is never the same length from one year to the next. You’d think that would be standardized–at least within the same institution–but nope. Every semester I’m either picking which books to drop or figuring out what I can add. At a certain point, the asteroid actually does start to sound like a better option!
Couple
And lately it’s getting harder to believe in just one gainfully employed academic.
Curve
Actually, my students’ final papers this spring have been pretty great overall. There’s the usual few who try to cite Wikipedia as a source and copy paragraphs out of the textbook, but most of them have done good solid work and some of them have even taught me something new.
Meeting
Notify the chair of the subcommittee on sallies and rampages to begin a report on the feasibility of mustering at dawn for wrath and ruin.
