Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Academia, Advising, workshop on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just some suggestions for people who develop workshops:
Include some breaks. Seriously. Even professors can’t go 4 hours without a break.
Lunch breaks should be longer than 30 minutes … and there should be more than carbs on the table.
People who are overanimated should really rethink their presentation style. Honestly – I thought this woman was going [...]
Posted in It's My Life, The Professoriate, tagged Academia, Clothes, Raises, Summer on May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ah … the papers are read, the tests are covered in red purple ink, and the final grades are posted. That means only one thing: the spring semester is over! Yeah, I’ve been to graduation — which was held on the soggiest, dampest, coldest day ever — and I’ve sat through the cattle call in [...]
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Grading on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today’s favorite typo: Asses.
Only six more papers to grade …
Posted in It's My Life, tagged Academia, bureaucracy on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well fuck me. Our idiotic school is taking our ‘net access down at noon today … right in the middle of time allotted for uploading our grades. Now, that’s just stupid.
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Academia, Administration on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hopefully my regular readers will remember that I’ve alluded to some upcoming administrative work here at the University of Sorta’ Cosmopolitan? Well, it’s official. I am now an “acting” director of the graduate program in my department. Okay, technically, not until August 1, but seeing how the grad students have been told … to me, that’s [...]
Posted in Wat Stom!, tagged Politics on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Check out this gem that I found on YouTube.
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Teaching on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Remember how I told you all about how my two undergrad classes had such different abilities? Well, it held true for the final exam as well. One class had an exam average of 60; the other had an exam average of 47. Good grief.
I ended up with most of my A’s and B’s for the [...]
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Exams, Teaching on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Giving exams is really, really boring. I’ve already graded the homework assignments and I still have another 50 minutes to go. Ugh!
Posted in Politics, tagged ads, climate change, Politics on May 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here I am, watching the election returns on CNN, drinking Corona Light, and (quite possibly) getting ready to cry in my beer if my gal doesn’t win Indiana. Seriously, am I going to have to buy a “Barack the Vote” shirt? The idea makes me barf a little in the back of my mouth.
But, that’s [...]
Posted in The Professoriate, tagged Teaching on May 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I printed the wrong version of my final exam. Oops.
Yeah, that means my class just got 10 “give-me” points.
Welcome to the end of a very, very long semester.
