We've got the full week off for Thanksgiving, but most students leave sometime Friday. I caused panic in my classrooms by telling my students that they would have a quiz today, just like they do every Friday. (I even specifically said on the syllabus that there would be a quiz the Friday before Thanksgiving.) I'm sure I'm going to be docked some points in my student evaluations for this, but since I'm not going to be teaching here next year, I don't really care.
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Nov 21, 2014 6:36:38 am PST #10986 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
brenda m - Nov 21, 2014 6:40:47 am PST #10987 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
At Marquette the day before or after a holiday counted as missing three classes. Which mattered because with four or more absences the professor could deregister you from their class.
Hil R. - Nov 21, 2014 6:46:56 am PST #10988 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
At Marquette the day before or after a holiday counted as missing three classes. Which mattered because with four or more absences the professor could deregister you from their class.
We don't have that kind of power here. We can't even enforce prerequisites. (Seriously. The computer registration system isn't set up to check whether a student has taken all the prerequisites before allowing them to register for a class. If a professor wants to, they can go through the list, individually check each student's transcript, and deregister the ones who don't have the prerequisites, but there's nothing preventing those students from just registering again. Also, only professors have that power -- for classes taught by non-tenure-track faculty, there's nothing we can do.)
sarameg - Nov 21, 2014 6:47:21 am PST #10989 of 30000
Of course. Guy with hyuuge shoulders in the middle seat. Feel bad for the lady in the window.
3 hr flight....
Hil R. - Nov 21, 2014 6:56:42 am PST #10990 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Daniel Handler is matching all donations to We Need Diverse Books today, up to $100,000. [link]
Jesse - Nov 21, 2014 6:59:37 am PST #10991 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
We've got the full week off for Thanksgiving, but most students leave sometime Friday.
That's so annoying -- I bet they expanded it because of people not showing up for classes the week of Thanksgiving!
Rick - Nov 21, 2014 7:05:55 am PST #10992 of 30000
I had 14 of my 80 students in class this morning.
I gave them my "We few, we happy few . . ." speech and we got down to work.
Consuela - Nov 21, 2014 7:08:50 am PST #10993 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Omg why am I at work? It should be my day off, but I switched days so I could take next Friday off. Except I don't really have much to do. So bored.
meara - Nov 21, 2014 7:12:42 am PST #10994 of 30000
I spent half of yesterday cleaning my office. Today I've got a few hours of meetings, and then an hour or so of work...and then I think I'll clean my office some more.
tommyrot - Nov 21, 2014 7:13:01 am PST #10995 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I have nothing to do at the moment--I'm waiting for a client to get back to me.
I'm hoping I can leave early but I'm fearing the client won't get back to us until this afternoon or Monday and I'll end up staying here until the 5:22 train.