I Really Don't Want to Whine
One more day and then another and a day to sleep. Then I get to do it all again. But we've got MLK day coming, which makes me feel a touch more calm.
The first week of classes is always tough. The whole drop/add cycle exhausts me. I like to start right away, get right into the material. Otherwise, you just waste a week of perfectly good class time. I also like to set the tone and pace early. Ususally there's a bit of turnover as folks "fine tune" their schedules, but I plan things so that we're warming up, really, before we get to the brass tacks. Tomorrow is the first full class day and I'm curious about what I'll get.
I'm teaching two classes, back to back. One starts at 9, the other at 10. At this point, I've got about 1/2 the original enrollment in the 9 a.m. class, but almost 100% of the original enrollment in the 10. Is there something magical that happens between 9 and 10 that makes a 10 a.m. class more attractive? Who knows? I'll just be glad when the roster stops fluctuating.
Four more inches of grey stockinette before I can start on the highly anticipated "V".
Comments
Well, I know that I'm totally lazy and would definitely try to avoid at 9:00 class is there was a 10:00 one. Best of luck with your classes.
Posted by: Jane | January 12, 2007 12:16 AM
I so hear you. Drop and Add is a waste of time--or at least three or four days of it is! They should make students do what I had to do several centuries ago when I was an undergraduate--spend days standing in lines in order to drop a class. Would certainly put a damper on some of the class browsing.
Posted by: Monica | January 12, 2007 03:00 PM
Geez, I'd take a 9 o'clock class if it were me! Those were always better than the 7:45s. *shudder*
Posted by: Anne | January 12, 2007 09:59 PM