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@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 3:23 PM

[Professoring] so I went from being in charge of 3 classes that were all in danger of being canceled due to underenrollment to getting saddled with 4 courses at full capacity.

All sections of the same course....

Flashbacks to the last time I had to teach english composition to 80 students and how well I handled that.

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 3:23 PM

I have a feeling I'll just surprise everyone by deciding to skip the third paper

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 3:24 PM

because course caps have raised since then and I think that means I've got 100 students

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 3:24 PM

so much for my dreams of getting anything done to my dissertation this term

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 3:28 PM

I stand on the enormous precipice of Labor and hope the drop doesn't kill me

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 3:28 PM

or cause a health emergency because lol I am prone to those

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 3:29 PM

May my cancer-hip not choose this semester to snap

𝐭𝐬𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐭

@minimoffs

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 3:38 PM

jesus christ

Vαɾιαɳƚ

@Uccellino

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 4:28 PM

antler queen

@speaksincolor

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 5:16 PM

oof good luck

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 5:16 PM

thank you I will try not to die

antler queen

@speaksincolor

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 5:58 PM

pls no die

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 6:06 PM

part of me feels like the repitition will murder me long before the workload does

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 6:07 PM

"Okay guys let's talk about improving your sentence variety!

" four times in a row

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 6:07 PM

three of them on the same day

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 6:08 PM

prayer circle that they're all active and invested humans and don't just line up in the back row and stare at me waiting to be entertained

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 6:09 PM

(don't bother praying. They will not be active)

Shira

@somescribbles

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 6:54 PM

that's... a lot... of grading.

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 7:37 PM

so much grading

oshi oh no

@kyuupin

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 7:40 PM

oshi oh no

@kyuupin

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 7:40 PM

i'll miss you

oshi oh no

@kyuupin

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 7:40 PM

i'll see you when the semester is over

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 7:40 PM

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 7:41 PM

oshi oh no : I'm still here to coach you through your class >|

oshi oh no

@kyuupin

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 7:42 PM

I WON'T MAKE YOU BE MY PERSONAL TUTOR!!!! also tbh a lot of that class is going to be like, repeats of what i did in high school

oshi oh no

@kyuupin

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 7:42 PM

because i took english composition classes to be prepared for college in high school

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 7:43 PM

I mean you're going to crush it either way

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 7:43 PM

but SUPPORT IS STILL HERE

Shira

@somescribbles

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 8:19 PM

composition doesn't give you much break either, bc it's all... well, you know. So. I'm here to voice my support for skipping or chopping paper number 3.

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 8:20 PM

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 8:21 PM

i skipped the third paper for every course I taught during the pandemic

Shira

@somescribbles

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 8:21 PM

probably a good call, tbh

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 8:21 PM

it's the part of the semester where I'm like "let's be realistic. you don't have time. I don't have time. just don't tell my Chair"

Shira

@somescribbles

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 8:21 PM

people had enough on their minds

⚜LittleWolfGirl

@ElenaKillbert

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 11:42 PM

Omg I’m so sorry. I had 4, then 3, now might wind up with 4 again. All are comp, but only 2 are/could be sections of same course

⚜LittleWolfGirl

@ElenaKillbert

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 11:42 PM

Chopping paper 3 is something that never occurred to me lol

⚜LittleWolfGirl

@ElenaKillbert

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 11:47 PM

....now I want to chop all my 3rd papers....

⚜LittleWolfGirl

@ElenaKillbert

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 11:47 PM

Except in RNM class b/c that’s how I get my new music... lol

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 11:57 PM

man it's your right. syllabus is subject to change and sometimes those changes mean taking things out

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 11:57 PM

the department collects them at the start of the term and that's all that ends up on file

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 11:57 PM

victimless crime

Jessie

@sincerest

Mon, Aug 23, 2021 11:58 PM

(this is why people with too much teaching experience get overlooked for tenure-track positions. people who adjunct for too long start prioritizing quality of life sometimes

)

Jessie

@sincerest

Tue, Aug 24, 2021 12:00 AM

also unrelated to any of this but Netflix's "The Chair" makes me feel Seen

Jessie

@sincerest

Tue, Aug 24, 2021 12:00 AM

it's like "tag urself I'm the messy guy who rolls out of bed just in time to show up late for class but not so late that the class walked out"

Jessie

@sincerest

Tue, Aug 24, 2021 12:01 AM

I pretend I'm the young upstart with the innovative syllabus who's being kept down by elderly white men, but no I'm The Mess