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[lasquires]

I'm giggling at the notion of a class of students showing up dutifully, day after day, week after week, sitting there just waiting for the instructor to show up.

E: (staring at his phone) "Well? Shall we go?"

A: (also staring at his phone) "Yes, let's go."

Only their thumbs move.

If Kafka were alive today...

[lasquires]

On Being Completely AWOL.

When I was an undergrad I use to have this dream, during finals, of not having attended some class or another for the entire semester. Of course I would be nervous about failing the that final because I never was in the class.

I'm long past undergrad, but I still have this dream.

Ditto. In my dream, it's always a calculus class, which is weird, because I was good at math.

For me, the dream has become more colorful and nuanced.  Most recently, I dreamed that I hadn't shown up to class, but I was going to try to take the final anyway because I taught the class last year.  Only, only, I used the competing, inferior textbook that my chair made me use.  The class I never showed up to take used the textbook I WANTED to use, but I  had only glanced at the textbook when it came to my office rather than actually studying it.

In my dream, it's not that I don't know I'm enrolled in the class. I know I'm enrolled, but I can't ever get to the class. Sometimes I'm simply waylaid by a series of improbably events. Sometimes I'm wandering around a building that turns into an Escher drawing. Sometimes, I keep having to go back home to get my pants, which keep going missing.

[john_proctor]

My level of outrage would depend upon the course content.

Should it be, say, a philosophy course on Nilism or Existentialism or Transcendentalism, I'd say the prof was one of the most gutsy and brilliant educators of our age.

[navydad]

Good old fashioned anxiety dreams. Mine is that I show up for class and an exam is scheduled that I had forgotten about. That one (or variations of it) is tediously common among academic types. I have that one about every three or four years now. The other one is that I am a child walking up the aisle at church when I realize I am naked. I haven't had that one in many years.

[fiona]

I've sometimes asked classes if the students have had the usual anxiety dream (end of semester, never been to class . . .)

Only the best students have ever had that dream. So anxiety is fuel.

If you haven't had that dream, you're a doofus.

Let us know, if you can find your pants.

The Fiona

[oldadjunct]

My anxiety dream generally involves a class completely out of control, and one or more of my own children in the back row egging them on.  One memorable dream involved trying to corral the class back from a water park while son and daughter were shouting, "Don't pay attention to him, we never did."

Incidentally, my real life students very much enjoy, and are astonished by the fact, that professors have these dreams.

[lyndonparker]

Am I the only one surprised that the university let the "A"s stand and gave the students full credit for the courses? It must be interesting to explain that to the accreditor.

[quasihumanist]

I've sometimes asked classes if the students have had the usual anxiety dream (end of semester, never been to class . . .)

Well - some of my worst students live that dream.

I suppose if you aren't bothered by it, you probably don't have the dream or don't remember it if you do.