Classroom Misery

Two classrooms that I met students in last week have somehow been given to other instructors. I wandered into an abnormally full classroom this morning at 8 AM, and was told by the new instructor that their class started a week late and that as a tenured professor he had the right to the classroom. At 11 AM the same thing happened, but with another new person like me, but from another department. I stood in the hallway each time with my class gathering, and after a time, and after we had scoured the hallways for another room, I dismissed them.

 I have emailed the department coordinator, and made a journey to their distant office, but nobody was in. This is not anything earthshaking, but I wonder who in the hell is running this place.

Jonny West Coast Says Hello.

"Sell your crazy somewhere else!"

I have a longtime involvement with my university's paper. I've taught classes in the major, been an advisor. I wrote a column for a while, and I've been an advisor off and on. I love what a great school paper can do. And other times I just wish the building would blow up.

This example from last month is not even that bad; it's just got this "attitude" that I see more and more that drives me batty. I will try to mark some "flava" and then provide a link to anyone interested in more:

Lies College Professors Tell Us: College is only an extension of high school in which students continue to decipher and read in between the lines of what their college professors are saying. Be alert, don’t take their every word too seriously. Some statements we hear semester after semester, class after class. “This is going to help you in the real world.” Lies. Hearing this statement for all four years of high school, we’ve finally concluded that derivatives and the timeline of the presidents are definitely not going to help us in the future.

The rest.