Posts Tagged ‘Academic Life’
Hey Ya: Guess Who’s Done Grading?
Posted by: annieem on: December 14, 2009
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Me, baby!
To treat myself, I went running along the river, singing this song (yep, all of it) at the top of my lungs….
Finals Week Follies
Posted by: annieem on: December 11, 2009
I know that professorial whining during the end of the term is so utterly boring, but I believe it’s my turn:
From the mouths of students–and Annie’s bitchy replies:
Act I:
Young woman, who has not been to class in 6 weeks, but who has e-mailed me weekly demanding to know when I can meet with her (and never [...]
Shaken, not all stirred up
Posted by: annieem on: November 19, 2009
It’s one of those weeks in academia:
schedules for 2010-11 are due
book orders for next quarter are due
essays need to graded and returned
that essay I promised to write a few months ago is due
references still need to be written
requests for sabbaticals are due shortly
students’ grandmothers are dying left and right
H1N1 has taken over our town
colleagues are [...]
Summer Fun for Educators
Posted by: annieem on: July 27, 2009
I know that many of us involved in education save summertime (even those of us who teach in the summer) for a little r and r, (rest, relaxation, reading, writing, road trips, ruminating, roaring with glee, etc).
But many of us also do unpleasant things like finally going to the doctor. I know, because getting an appointment in [...]
Grading Hell
Posted by: annieem on: July 22, 2009
So, my old office is now all packed, and at this point uninhabitable since boxes take up every free spot. My new office won’t be ready for a few more weeks, but I’m excited about the move (I love the required purging that happens whenever I move, too).
I saved all the cartoons on my bulletin board, though [...]
Rejection, Failure, and Self Reflection
Posted by: annieem on: June 25, 2009
My first panic attack happened during the summer before my second year (not my first, interestingly) of graduate school and adjunct teaching. I was walking along 5th Avenue in NY and suddenly stopped breathing: there’s no other way of explaining it. I responded with the usual Prozac and Psychotherapy, stopping the latter soon after realizing [...]
Sharing Is Caring
Posted by: annieem on: April 18, 2009
At our little community college, with its small, mostly 1-2 storied, scattered multiuse (both offices and classrooms together) buildings over nearly 200 acres, the tradition is that full time instructors get private offices, while adjuncts must share. Yet, as is the sad state of academia nationally, while the number of full time instructors has remained stagnant for [...]
in Just
Posted by: annieem on: March 16, 2009
[with apologies to e.e. cummings]
in Just
finals week when the campus is snow-
luscious the stressed out students
cry and heave far and wee
and tiffanyandryan come
straggling into my office with
deadgrandmother and lostthumbdrive stories and it’s
finals week
when the campus is drunk-wonderful (on thoughts of spring break)
the joy-less
professor down the hall drones at me
far and wee
and brittanyandchase come stoned to [...]
Fridays in Academia
Posted by: annieem on: January 9, 2009
It’s Friday and our campus is effectively empty on Fridays. Well, there is the eccentric Economics professor just letting out his class at 1:50pm, but really, he’s the lone non-Science/Allied Health professor still teaching a MWF class. Otherwise, my mostly small-classrooms- and-very-small-offices-single-hallway-1950s-building is blessedly quiet on Fridays. The Science building, however, having to make use [...]
Sunday Night Musings
Posted by: annieem on: December 14, 2008
When I first started graduate school, I immediately started having panic attacks. It was clearly not ideal timing, but something about taking classes and teaching (since my en route Ph.D. program “allowed” us to teach our own composition classes at the same time we were taking classes) gave me both the space and the elevated [...]
