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Today is my last day at the Cow Campus this semester. I'm excited about getting Fridays back as a writing day; I need all the thesis time I can get! This morning's seminar on exam preparation was a bust. As my cleverly cynical cousin pointed out on the phone last night, running an exam prep class in April is just silly. The people who really need to start studying for their exams two months in advance are exactly the ones who would never turn up to an advance workshop. She was, of course, correct. One lone mature aged student arrived to take part, and she was pretty much on top of things, just the usual anxiety driven questions. Now my job is to help students and I am happy to do so, but as my boss and I discussed afterwards, in economic terms the whole procedure is illogical. I get paid for 8 hours per day once a week to come in, prepare seminars, deliver them and then take individual appointments in the afternoons. Since the attendance is so small, these students could easily be helped in the individual 20 minute sessions instead of preparing powerpoints, handouts etc for no-one. It is just a waste of resources. But, that's the education sector I guess.
Lunch consisted of cold potato gems. This campus used to have fantastic fresh food- now it is all pseudo-take-away. Ick. Oh and I had to pay 80cents for a plastic fork.
I really should go and finish my marking. As I write this my brain already begins to rebell. Must. Mark. Papers. Must... Must... look up pictures of ferrets on google....NO!!!! This is going to be a long day...
Lunch consisted of cold potato gems. This campus used to have fantastic fresh food- now it is all pseudo-take-away. Ick. Oh and I had to pay 80cents for a plastic fork.
I really should go and finish my marking. As I write this my brain already begins to rebell. Must. Mark. Papers. Must... Must... look up pictures of ferrets on google....NO!!!! This is going to be a long day...