Back to the ol' grindstone. I have an email in my inbox whining that one student's small group wouldn't communicate with them or work with them over Spring Break, another email whinging about how the assignment sheet and grading rubric (neither of which I designed) don't match up, and another from my colleague asking me to check one of the posts written by one of his students for plagiarism.
I cannot wait to get back on campus.
2 hours ago
Here, I just had lots and lots of people mysteriously absent. Not sure if they're just extending their break or if they are stuck somewhere up North in the snow (though I'm disinclined to believe that; I went North and managed to get back here before the storm hit).
ReplyDeleteAlso, the heat in my building is broken and it's unseasonably cold. My office is about 60 degrees right now which really displeases me.
Our heat isn't broken, but the furnace is having a difficult time keeping up with the cold and wind.
DeleteAt least at a person's house, they can wrap up in a blanket or something. I wound up releasing my 11:00 class 20 minutes early because it was like 50 degrees in the room. I think they have the a/c on, which is just idiotic.
ReplyDeleteI get cold at work these days and cannot get warm again, even in a hot shower at home. I know, it could be worse, but it's one of those stupid morale-sapping things. You'd think they'd care more about the well-being of their students, if not their profs.
Nope. It's like I tell my students when I'm permitted to teach the practical proposal, and one of them chooses a topic to do with campus: admin doesn't care about anything but the overall numbers and dollars. Oh, and cost. That plays big. And right now, it's not costing anything to run the AC, but would cost to run the heat.
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