Dr. Jekyll: Dammit all Hyde, I hate this time of year.Prof. Hyde: Are you dreading the onset of winter?
Dr. Jekyll: No. My vexation is that daylight savings time has ended.
Prof. Hyde: I am not sure I understand.
Dr. Jekyll: In this northern clime, that means it now gets dark before all the students have left the building. You know how I don't turn on my office light so that people think I'm not there?
Prof. Hyde: Yes, but...
Dr. Jekyll: Well, now I am forced to turn on an office light to get any work done. At least I may have discovered one thing about students that perhaps Nature will be interested in.
Prof. Hyde: Which is?
Dr. Jekyll: Students are more like moths than roaches regarding the light from faculty offices.
But more like roaches in many other ways.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I remember is that my students seldom came to my office when I was there while I was doing some work between lectures. Instead, they would come, if at all, when it would most inconvenience me, such as before I had to conduct another class or--horrors!--go home for the day.
ReplyDeleteThen again, I was expected to be readily accessible to my students at all times. Never mind that the concept of making an appointment totally escaped both them and my departmental administrators.
Two words: task lighting.
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