OMFG I'm so screwed
I think now I know why my Animal Physiology teacher used to carry three large sized Starbucks' coffees into our 11:20 class and guzzling them as he talked at us (as the class went on and he got more caffeinated, he'd start vibrating and shooting desperate looks at the rest of us). I was so desperate for coffee during my teach-backs at the testing review center and I just doing a piece of the whole lesson at one person. But GAH I felt like my brain was going to start seeping through my nose towards the end.
Seriously, audiences are like dementors. They sit there and suck the energy out of you through your face. I don't know how I'm going to last 3 hours lecturing at a 35 person class on Organic Chemistry. I'm going to have to arm myself with a lot of coffee.
The training session felt like such a disaster. Most of the material I was trying to teach I had very little recollection of. So quite a bit went something like this:
me: The electron lone pairs attacks the electrophilic, positively charged carbon in a Sn2 addition like so...
guy: Wait, the arrow goes the other way.
me: [scribble]
guy: Uh... the other other way.
me: [scribble]
guy: Uh... what's that smear?
And I'm too short to reach more than 1/2 the board so I'm erasing a lot faster than I should. But standing on a chair while lecturing to reach the rest of the whiteboard is weird and not just a little embarrassing. I hope the boards at the Long Beach classroom are suitably lower.
GAH.
Well, I have until Tuesday to prepare and get really caffeinated.
Seriously, audiences are like dementors. They sit there and suck the energy out of you through your face. I don't know how I'm going to last 3 hours lecturing at a 35 person class on Organic Chemistry. I'm going to have to arm myself with a lot of coffee.
The training session felt like such a disaster. Most of the material I was trying to teach I had very little recollection of. So quite a bit went something like this:
me: The electron lone pairs attacks the electrophilic, positively charged carbon in a Sn2 addition like so...
guy: Wait, the arrow goes the other way.
me: [scribble]
guy: Uh... the other other way.
me: [scribble]
guy: Uh... what's that smear?
And I'm too short to reach more than 1/2 the board so I'm erasing a lot faster than I should. But standing on a chair while lecturing to reach the rest of the whiteboard is weird and not just a little embarrassing. I hope the boards at the Long Beach classroom are suitably lower.
GAH.
Well, I have until Tuesday to prepare and get really caffeinated.