Hi, everyone! I've got no cartoons for you today or tomorrow, but I'll be back soon enough. In the meantime....
Q. Do you have any experiences fit for depiction in College Misery's poorly drawn Cartoon Guide to the Academy?
A. C'mon and inspire me...I'm taking requests in the comments.
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ReplyDeleteI once had a baseball player who either wasn't smart enough or wasn't motivated enough to solve a simple Algebra problem. The answer was 4. It was so bad that, at one point, I said, "No matter what I say, you respond with 4. OK?" He acknowledged this with an audible "OK." I then said "The answer to this problem is...?" to which he responded, "I don't know."
ReplyDeleteHe failed the class.
Mathsquatch *wants to get a baseball bat and bash that guy's brains* out.
Logistics of why we can NOT have class outside?
ReplyDelete(glare on screens, papers flying around, no such things as portable chalkboards any more(from what I can see), I'm not prepared with bugspray and sunscreen, not to mention the impossibility of concentration, especially if your class meets at a slightly off time, so midway through, everyone else would be getting out of class, walking through your impromptu room...)
You could even draw it while you're outside for extra effect!
Myra inspired this entry:
ReplyDeleteThe idealized weekend life of an academic: poetry readings, intellectual debates at a coffee shop, staying home to read on Saturday night, etc.
vs.
What we actually do: hang out with our families, drink beer with friends, watch a football game, etc.
Academic fashion plates: the feral slob, the drapey-clothed therapist-wannabe, the slick new hire, Stuck in the Early 1990s, and so on.
ReplyDeleteI was teaching a software engineering class once and mentioned that some problems have to be resolved in meetings. One punk raised his hand and said, "You GenXers don't get it. My generation can do everything with emails and doesn't need meetings." I wanted to say, "I was using email and attending meetings before you were born." Or maybe just spank him.
ReplyDeleteEndless department meetings with the Academic Types: the Control Freak, the I-Had_an_idea-years-ago-and-haven't-had-another, the disconnected, the earnest....
ReplyDeleteTyrng to read student papers and realizing that a degree in paleography would have helped...
The pile of excuses for not turnng work in on time ... maybe as a flow chart.