And so a long term comes to an end, a term dominated by marking and more arguments over marks and extensions than I can remember, with many of those arising from students I have been generous to. I don't think I've been any harsher than normal, but entitlement is all over the place. I feel micromanaged, second guessed and undermined ( Read more... )

The last week or two has been a death march - plans of daily reading and viewing took second place to marking and second marking, and I've been trying to finish for ages. But the late essays had issues that needed checking - although they weren't in the end all problems after all - and there were some waifs and strays of late hand ins which we ( Read more... )

I just marked two essays for the same module - these were left over from a divvying up to co-workers, and there's another ten or so which were late which I won't burn the midnight oil over. Both of them had sentences I wanted to type into Google and I'm not sure I've much to teach either. But one of them is as high a first as I dare and one is as ( Read more... )

There was a plan - for lo! we do not do things randomly round here. But the trip to London on Friday was more exhausting than planned - or perhaps the journey home was - and thus the Saturday morning writing a lecture in the library turned into hitting the radio button on the alarm clock every seventy minutes or so. I emerged at four from bed (I ( Read more... )

Tonight, after a weekend of prevarication, I marked a batch of essays ( Read more... )

( Or will be. Perhaps. )

I get the faint sense that there is a sense of humour deficit on the interwebs - either in my jokes or their audience. I reckon it's the latter ( Read more... )

Today's highlight was noticing that a student had written down the manufacturer of my Tshirt. I is kewl ( Read more... )

I plan to take Friday off. This translates as I will go to the library at the campus on the hill, and research the Leuven paper ( Read more... )

Then you get the essay which is stuffed to the gills with quotations - indeed you plan to made a note of some of them yourself for future reference (but probably won't get round to it). The referencing system is a little to pot, but still, there's the festure in that direction ( Read more... )