This morning I had the awesome feeling of my students (or at least some of them) “getting it.” Between today’s lecture and last Friday’s lecture, 3 different students have piped in with questions that were not only totally relevant, but PRECISELY the next thing we were going to discuss. This means they were asking themselves […]
It’s Friday morning. So, I should be in for a low stress day of coasting into the weekend? Of course not. This morning, I taught at 9AM. I had office hours until 8:50 and a student actually came to ask questions, so I didn’t get to class as early as I normally do. I walked […]
Sorry that lately my blog has become more about my adventures in teaching than my adventures in grad school or Texas, but this is the first semester I’m teaching my own class, so it’s new and somewhat exciting and that’s what I want to talk about. I drafted my first exam this week. I wrote […]
A student fell asleep in class today. After class was over, the rest of the class scurried out while I was packing up my teaching-things. I was the last one out of the room, and the kid was still sprawled on his desk sleeping. This will end in one of two ways: either the kid […]
Grading for a class that you’re not teaching is weird. I mean, I really like the idea of large universities helping out professors teaching the large classes by hiring people to grade the homework for them (or using software to manage homework, which I haven’t fully formed an opinion on yet. When I teach College […]
Okay, so I feel it is more appropriate to vent in my private (public) blog than on Facebook. Every public place I go to I have to avoid stomping on someone’s stupid child that gets in my way (or accidentally elbowing them in the head, or running them over, or whatever). For example, today in […]
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