FIRST DAY OF CLASSES!
Category: Academics
Posted on: January 16, 2007 7:00 AM, by PZ Myers
AND I'M NOT READY!
Can we have a couple more weeks of vacation, please?
Last day of classes: May 2nd. 30 lectures, 45 lab sections away.
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It's always too soon. We've still got another five weeks before the students return. Time for five more lottery draws.
Posted by: Snail | January 16, 2007 7:43 AM
Pretend to be sick. Tell them you have something funky, like explosive diarrhea, and to stay away. They won't want you to be at the front of the class if they think you're fighting a minute to minute battle to prevent yourself from dropping a big runny load in your pants.
Unless they're evil bastards, which they might be.
Posted by: King Aardvark | January 16, 2007 8:51 AM
PZ,
I fully agree. I have class today, too (I'm a grad student at U of I - Chambana). Whoever invented 9am classes ought to meet me in a closed session with the business end of a two-by-four.
Best,
Steve
Posted by: Steve Calderwood | January 16, 2007 9:19 AM
Oh, I know. A few of us were talking in the mailroom this morning - "You know, in December, January 16 seems so far away, and then all of a sudden..."
Posted by: Carlie | January 16, 2007 9:42 AM
Sigh. To have only 30 lectures. I'll grant you that your lab load and content level is significantly higher than mine, not to mention your own research - but I'll do 30 classes in the first two weeks of the new semester. I feel a sore throat coming on.
Try not to harsh my buzz too much, though. Exam break just started - I've got two weeks left.
Posted by: magista | January 16, 2007 9:55 AM
What are you'all talking about!?!? I'm chaffing at the bit. Can't wait to get started!
Posted by: Greg Laden | January 16, 2007 11:41 AM
Hummm, and I have to start applying for faculty positions next year.......
Posted by: kim | January 16, 2007 12:39 PM
What? You haven't had enough break already? It's the second week of classes here at my college.
Posted by: Rick @ shrimp and grits | January 16, 2007 12:42 PM
Now that you mention it, it's 2nd week of classes at all the schools here, too. That includes elementary school kids.
I wouldn't mind a couple of extra weeks off. I need them to recover from the week of "vacation" that I already had. Stupid germy nephews making everybody sick.
Posted by: King Aardvark | January 16, 2007 1:04 PM
Bah. 45 lab sections? I've got 96. Of course, I've also got two weeks of vacation left to go, and I don't have to maintain a research program ... but we'll ignore that :)
Posted by: Radagast | January 16, 2007 1:33 PM
Steve,
Try being a TA in an 8:00 AM Friday discussion section. Trying to get the students to talk was like pulling teeth!
I'm so not ready to start the semester, candidacy exams are looming in May...That seemed like a long way off in September.:(
Posted by: Pygmy Loris | January 16, 2007 3:09 PM
Ack! I'm not ready to go back to classes. I've been too busy preparing my paper for publication and watching "Robot Chicken" episodes on YouTube. I'm going to be on a major caffeine buzz in immunology lab today...
Posted by: Shigella | January 16, 2007 3:50 PM
I got a four-day weekend at Xmas. Yay floating holiday!
Posted by: Tukla in Iowa | January 16, 2007 6:45 PM
Glad to see you all have such a positive feeling about teaching.
Tax dollars at work (or not at work as the case might be)
Posted by: jess | January 16, 2007 9:26 PM
Let an old experienced teacher give you'all some hard earned advice. If you need to prepare so much, you are doing it wrong. The students get very little out of you reading back what you learned hours before.
If what you know best is "Robot Chicken" given them "Robot Chicken." They will really learn "Robot Chicken" and they will never forget it.
Posted by: Greg Laden | January 16, 2007 10:41 PM
Glad to see you all have such a positive feeling about teaching.
Tax dollars at work (or not at work as the case might be)
Actually, teaching is one of those professions that people do because they love it. Certainly not for the money.
Those who can't teach ... get real jobs.
Posted by: Greg Laden | January 16, 2007 10:43 PM
Glad to see you all have such a positive feeling about teaching.
Tax dollars at work (or not at work as the case might be)
What? Is there a law now that everyone has to really, really, really love their job? It's not enough to do the work to the required level (and often beyond)?
Posted by: Disgruntled of Tonbridge Wells | January 17, 2007 12:01 AM