tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post2301636559553641927..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Literal College Dreams (and Nightmares)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-58781907779531579332010-10-31T18:50:00.024-04:002010-10-31T18:50:00.024-04:00I tend to have dreams in which my office is full o...I tend to have dreams in which my office is full of students and colleagues all demanding things of me, and I have to get to my computer to deal with their demands, but they're all between me and the computer, and I'm getting more and more hysterical and they are completely oblivious to that, and just keep demanding more.<br /><br />Or where I'm tying to pack and get to the airport Grumpy Academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02896982515031823267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-37501554565379639212010-10-31T08:56:11.970-04:002010-10-31T08:56:11.970-04:00@Anastasia:
Get a Ph.D., and your dream may come ...@Anastasia:<br /><br />Get a Ph.D., and your dream may come true! :-(<br /><br />@Marcia:<br /><br />Are you sure your dream didn't come true? It sounds close to more classes of mine than I care to admit. Since getting tenure, they're not as common, since there's not really any way they can harm me with their anonymous student evaluations of teaching anymore. It also helps to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-15950913433265155002010-10-30T19:36:28.673-04:002010-10-30T19:36:28.673-04:00I think the "I signed up for a class and forg...I think the "I signed up for a class and forgot about it" dream must qualify for some type of academic archetype as I've had it at least once a year for most of my career. In mine, if I can earn an A on the final, I can get a C in the course.<br /><br />I have also dreamed that I showed up to class to teach but neglected to put on a shirt, that I'm locked out of my classroom andEnglishDochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12046114978214062491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-28189838263661549522010-10-30T17:49:35.628-04:002010-10-30T17:49:35.628-04:00Nullifidian, that latter dream is totally charming...Nullifidian, that latter dream is totally charming. It reads like the Cliff Notes of an unwritten Italo Calvino or Borges piece.Polar Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09713477095763100821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-31501057594341598932010-10-30T15:34:55.378-04:002010-10-30T15:34:55.378-04:00I've had the I-forgot-I-was-registered-and-now...I've had the I-forgot-I-was-registered-and-now-it's-the-midterm/final dream too.<br /><br />I also had a bizarre dream where I was sitting for my lieutenant's examination in the Royal Navy — I was reading a lot of Patrick O'Brian at the time — and one of the captains examining me came out with this truly outlandish question, like "What is the air speed velocity of an unladen Nullifidianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15207390447020990907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-71384867352783259062010-10-30T15:32:09.475-04:002010-10-30T15:32:09.475-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Nullifidianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15207390447020990907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-19150435665733781722010-10-30T12:35:29.525-04:002010-10-30T12:35:29.525-04:00I've had the forgot-to-drop/forgot-I-had-enrol...I've had the forgot-to-drop/forgot-I-had-enrolled and test/assignment due dream, but it is never as bad as an old one. <br /><br />Long ago, in another life, I taught boy scouts and cub scouts how to shoot guns. A dream that followed those years that was particularly frightening. I'm at the front of an old, large lecture hall from my Alma Mater, and am instructing a room full of cub Alan From Apexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01366176105581248496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-24289423455381558732010-10-30T09:55:11.094-04:002010-10-30T09:55:11.094-04:00Mine is a lecture hall full of students who will n...Mine is a lecture hall full of students who will not listen. They shout and scramble around the seats and mock me, and I stand there flapping my arms and screeching at them like a kindergarten teacher.Frog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-83368222819107857502010-10-30T07:25:46.949-04:002010-10-30T07:25:46.949-04:00@Strelnikov: Don't worry, I got the incompeten...@Strelnikov: Don't worry, I got the incompetent chair at the bottom of this back, and good. I got tenure (not without a struggle, after that class), became department chair, and assigned her to teach that class. When she tried to protest my decision for doing so, I told her, "I genuinely think you would be better at teaching this class than anyone else, because of your understanding ofAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-62725058027926423462010-10-30T05:01:14.353-04:002010-10-30T05:01:14.353-04:00@ Froderich F von F
Those spastics had the gall t...@ Froderich F von F<br /><br />Those spastics had the gall to yell at YOU, and after they rigged the class to maximum snowflakeage!? Did these fuckwhistles fall down stairs often because they forgot they weren't on a level surface? <br /><br />This is why I'm opposed to executive meddling in classes; if the department head wants a class done x,y, or z they should teach the miserable Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-16286988275444001062010-10-29T21:19:50.223-04:002010-10-29T21:19:50.223-04:00I have this recurring nightmare that I become a pr...I have this recurring nightmare that I become a professor and end up teaching a bunch of snowflakes. I can't get tenure and get paid a lot less for doing a lot more work than my colleagues. I hate my job and can't get through a pile of marking without a drink. My students don’t respect me, my dean is an idiot who takes their side, my mental health quickly deteriorates and I start posting Anastasiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14295576691711467656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-70182470407277115052010-10-29T20:39:31.219-04:002010-10-29T20:39:31.219-04:00"I am still a student. I have apparently forg..."I am still a student. I have apparently forgotten to drop calculus and the final exam is tomorrow. " - hey, I have that dream quite regularly, every April - only it's organic chemistry. Also, I didn't even remember that I had signed up for the class and I haven't been there all term.<br /><br />These days I also have the "and I haven't set the exam and they'reMerely Academichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452389428113097744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-57254732273029276412010-10-29T20:35:37.580-04:002010-10-29T20:35:37.580-04:00@Strelnikov:
I didn't mention the other half ...@Strelnikov:<br /><br />I didn't mention the other half of the nightmare: my grossly incompetent department chair at the time, who caved in to their every complaint, no matter how patently ridiculous. Grading harshly was unnecessary: the whole class surprised even me by getting a D average on the final exam, and my department chair and her silverback accomplice gave me a right raking over Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-17304482296979458452010-10-29T19:56:25.889-04:002010-10-29T19:56:25.889-04:00@ Froderick F von F
RYS beat you to the "Edu...@ Froderick F von F<br /><br />RYS beat you to the "Education majors are the bottom rung" thing years ago, I'm afraid. It was a note from a senior Education student slagging the lazy geeks who fart their way through the program. And yes, I mean "geek" in its old sideshow attraction definition and not Grant Imahara of "Mythbusters." I would have yelled at your Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-56250793503585977122010-10-29T19:52:44.204-04:002010-10-29T19:52:44.204-04:00Oooh, I have those "I'm still a student&q...Oooh, I have those "I'm still a student" nightmares, too. I'm still a student and I'm taking calculus in a very large, creepy classroom that looks like an extra set for a Harry Potter movie and I have an exam...and I've accidentally forgotten to go to class for, uh, the whole term.<br /><br />In the other one, I'm in the dining hall and I'm vegan and it's mycmthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03814447289455034068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-91667771819660992622010-10-29T18:33:36.407-04:002010-10-29T18:33:36.407-04:00No nightmare could possibly be as bad as the class...No nightmare could possibly be as bad as the class of 80 undergraduate education majors I had, for a poorly conceived course on "Energy, High Technology, and Society" that the state government mandated to be taught to them. Why K-6 teachers need to know this I'm sure I don't know. I tried not to let this show, though: I did my best to be enthusiastic about the subject, because Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-74590726187169051022010-10-29T18:18:23.679-04:002010-10-29T18:18:23.679-04:001) I'm going to give an exam but I am unable t...1) I'm going to give an exam but I am unable to get copies made on time so I have 150 impatient lower div random fuckbag gen-ed students champing at the bit and slowly turning to revolt while I dart back and forth to see if the machine's working yet, wondering how much longer I can stall them. Now they are making fun of the way my shirt buttons are too tight for my bust.<br />2) I'm Polar Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09713477095763100821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-57198929815499153452010-10-29T18:09:18.513-04:002010-10-29T18:09:18.513-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-65659839230212496022010-10-29T17:55:07.448-04:002010-10-29T17:55:07.448-04:00I recently had a nightmare in which I was back at ...I recently had a nightmare in which I was back at Oxford, and I defeated a vampire. I hammered the stake through his heart, dragged his coffin up a long flight of steps into the sunlight, the whole bit. While doing this, I was cussing about having to do all of it myself, because everyone else had chickened out. It’s obvious where my subconscious came up with this. I used to cuss in exactly the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-89640885249612371422010-10-29T17:48:03.843-04:002010-10-29T17:48:03.843-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-44352536065786982982010-10-29T17:23:57.127-04:002010-10-29T17:23:57.127-04:00You might want to try some warm milk at bedtime.You might want to try some warm milk at bedtime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-76728047089736532852010-10-29T17:19:57.529-04:002010-10-29T17:19:57.529-04:00I have no literal work-related dreams. My anxiety ...I have no literal work-related dreams. My anxiety tends to manifest itself as long drawn-out horribly detailed scenarios of me having sex with inappropriate people, usually colleagues. I would love to have naked in front of 50 students kind of dreams: far less creepy!Venus in Furshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06237235246662025808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-5751028406785985022010-10-29T14:26:10.163-04:002010-10-29T14:26:10.163-04:00I've had a recurring nightmare almost exactly ...I've had a recurring nightmare almost exactly like the 3rd one you describe: I'm almost always a student (sometimes the prof) who has completely forgotten to attend a course until the end of the semester and now has to figure out how to catch up or successfully navigate the final. I've had it for years, and it's terrifying every time.Dr. Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02187820711962025818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-81250519037958330732010-10-29T13:41:41.565-04:002010-10-29T13:41:41.565-04:00I haven't personally had any recurring work-re...I haven't personally had any recurring work-related dreams but a colleague relates this one similar to CMP's:<br /><br />She shows up for a large lecture class that she has been assigned. She's known about this class since the schedule came out so it's not a surprise. The catch is: It's not in her subject area. Think American History teaching Physical Geology. She thinks Sawyer in Student Serviceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16463333151790071057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-6956770275572940212010-10-29T13:27:34.012-04:002010-10-29T13:27:34.012-04:00I, too, have had Merely Academic's Oops-I'...I, too, have had Merely Academic's Oops-I've-forgotten-to-teach-the-third-class nightmare. I get that one right before the start of each term. <br /><br />Before I started my current position (and when Crazy Math Spouse was looking for a job near mine), I had a nightmare that I had accepted two positions. I was teaching the courses at my real school but I had forgotten all about the Crazy Math Professorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409653814917911532noreply@blogger.com