So what if the whole world shuts down?
The University has been shut down for a little over a week. Nobody knows how long this will continue. In the begining they told us classes would still end in the first week of June and we just have to deal with it somehow. Now they're not so sure. I might have a few extra weeks to teach this stuff or I might spend the rest of the semester posting my classes online. Nobody knows.
But if you thought this meant less work, think again! First of all, we've got to prepare the materials properly. Messy notes that only I can decipher just won't do it anymore. Improvising is not an option. At the absolute minimum, I need to prepare pdfs with pictures. And we're all trying to find a way to check that students are actually doing their work. We might have to organize tests online and there's an ongoing discussion about how to prevent cheating and what even counts as cheating in these circumstances.
And then there's... everything else.
The lady at the office seems to miss yelling at me. She called me this morning to tell me off for not bringing her some paperwork. Yeah, I was going to do that last week, but then the University shut down and I'm not even allowed to be on campus anymore... Apparently that's no excuse.
And I got an email today about my research. I'm gonna have to write weekly reports now! Sure, I don't need to prove a whole new theorem every week or anythng. I can just write that I've read these papers and thought about that conjecture a lot. But still. A report every freaking week.
Oh well. I guess that might not be such a bad idea, actually. In this state of semi-quarantaine, with no schedule, it's easy to give in to my laziness. Maybe I could use the motivation.
But if you thought this meant less work, think again! First of all, we've got to prepare the materials properly. Messy notes that only I can decipher just won't do it anymore. Improvising is not an option. At the absolute minimum, I need to prepare pdfs with pictures. And we're all trying to find a way to check that students are actually doing their work. We might have to organize tests online and there's an ongoing discussion about how to prevent cheating and what even counts as cheating in these circumstances.
And then there's... everything else.
The lady at the office seems to miss yelling at me. She called me this morning to tell me off for not bringing her some paperwork. Yeah, I was going to do that last week, but then the University shut down and I'm not even allowed to be on campus anymore... Apparently that's no excuse.
And I got an email today about my research. I'm gonna have to write weekly reports now! Sure, I don't need to prove a whole new theorem every week or anythng. I can just write that I've read these papers and thought about that conjecture a lot. But still. A report every freaking week.
Oh well. I guess that might not be such a bad idea, actually. In this state of semi-quarantaine, with no schedule, it's easy to give in to my laziness. Maybe I could use the motivation.