For all the students out there who think that their teachers spend long laborious hours developing new implements of pedantic torture, relishing each moment that visions of languishing students occupy their cruel imaginations . . .
The thought process may be really much more like this:
"Class starts in 20 minutes.
It takes 15 minutes for me to get there.
I am in an old sweatshirt and jeans and my hair is sticking out wildly in all directions.
I just finished grading last week's papers.
There is no way I can give an intelligible lecture.
Hey, I think I'll give my students a TIMED IN-CLASS ESSAY!!!"
Now you know.
2 comments:
I suspected as much.
For what it's worth, I'm sure you can make up for this torture with moments of "professorial brilliance" (as my medieval lit. prof. likes to say.)
Then again, you've also inspired a terrible premonition of what I might turn into as a university professor... God have mercy on us all.
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