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A student emails you close to the end of the term to say she can't remember how many class meetings she's missed, but there must have been several - could you check your records?
You check your records, and she has been present for every single class meeting.
Memorable, aren't I?
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Oseph....you are right and you make sense.
For your future comments, I insult very directly.
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anthroid
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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2009, 06:59:12 PM » |
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
<snort>
Sorry, what were you saying now?
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Do you hail from Planet Hello Kitty? It's like an action movie, but boring.
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der_gadfly
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oy vey
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« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2009, 07:20:34 PM » |
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your chair comes in to observe your class and the chair starts to snore too!
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« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2009, 07:53:15 PM » |
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students actually DO show up to class: its the only way they can get some sleep.
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« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2009, 08:22:55 PM » |
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You fall asleep during your own lectures.
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« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2009, 08:30:20 PM » |
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You fall asleep during your own lectures.
Is that an academic legend or do you speak from personal experience? My own version of this is having the out of body experience where you hear yourself talking and feel powerless to stop the rambling. |
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Oseph....you are right and you make sense.
For your future comments, I insult very directly.
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« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2009, 08:50:02 PM » |
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You fall asleep during your own lectures.
Is that an academic legend or do you speak from personal experience? My own version of this is having the out of body experience where you hear yourself talking and feel powerless to stop the rambling. I call this "being in the zone." If you perfect it, you can write whole paragraphs of your next paper in your head while lecturing. This is multitasking. |
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« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2009, 08:53:38 PM » |
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...when you hear snoring through the phone during your phone interview for the job at Exciting U.
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« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2009, 09:29:30 PM » |
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I have the perfect line to write here, but, first, it doesn't take place in the classroom, and, second, the place, the position and the activity during which someone fell asleep is not information I wish to divulge to the fora at large.
You all can just fill in the blanks yourself.
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« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2009, 09:50:49 PM » |
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I have the perfect line to write here, but, first, it doesn't take place in the classroom, and, second, the place, the position and the activity during which someone fell asleep is not information I wish to divulge to the fora at large.
You all can just fill in the blanks yourself.
Eh, forget the classroom - the setting is open - but I can understand the lack of detail. I am certain that narcolepsy or sleeping draughts must have been at fault. |
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Oseph....you are right and you make sense.
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der_gadfly
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oy vey
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« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2009, 09:51:44 PM » |
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You fall asleep during your own lectures.
actually happened to me once: 104+ fever (sick day? what is that?!?!), cold/flu meds, (took a day off the xanax though), no sleep for 2 nights (sick children and spouse), last of 4 classes on a 4-in-a-row day....... only nodded off long enough so that snowflakes thought it as one of 'professorly intellectual pauses - perhaps 5 seconds..... so no urban legend....... |
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llanfair
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Whither Canada?
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« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2009, 10:05:00 PM » |
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Students are extra kind to you on the really horrendous days. (Pity from students is painful.)
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This place stinks like a pair of armoured trousers after the Hundred Years' War.
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« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2009, 11:07:05 PM » |
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You end class 15 minutes early because you're sick of your own voice.
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melba_frilkins
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Doing laundry (still)
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« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2009, 02:36:30 AM » |
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You fall asleep during your own lectures.
Is that an academic legend or do you speak from personal experience? My own version of this is having the out of body experience where you hear yourself talking and feel powerless to stop the rambling. I call this "being in the zone." If you perfect it, you can write whole paragraphs of your next paper in your head while lecturing. This is multitasking. Oh, I forgot about that. I used to teach six sections of the same course. So by classes #5, 6, I'd be going on auto-pilot. It was truly bizarre to have my mind wander off, only to be listening to myself talking like it was someone else. |
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colette_capricious
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« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2009, 03:05:04 AM » |
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I confess I fell asleep at a lecture yesterday. The kind where everyone is sitting around a large table and one professor is talking. I was sitting up, no head on the table, but the sound of my pen falling out of my hand and hitting the table woke me up.
It was a very warm room. And a very, very boring lecture that had nothing much to do with the assigned reading. At the end, the professor admitted the talk hadn't gone "quite the way I wanted."
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