Okay, so half a year ago a bunch of students emailed me to ask to be moved to another group. When I asked the Dean's Office how to do it, I was told I had no say in this. And now it's apparently my job to decide who's in which group. And, of course, they tell me this three days before the new semester starts and don't even give me the list of ( Read more... )

Aaand my work email is acting up again. I'm supposed to be sending my students their tests right now. It just logged me out in the middle of sending one and it took me a few minutes to get back in. This is the single worst moment for this crap in months ( Read more... )

I'm kinda getting used to teaching online now. It's not that bad. Weird sometimes, but not bad, for the most part. Except there's a problem with the university website right now. And it's the worst possible time for that ( Read more... )

Me at 3 p.m.: Okay, if I want to upload these materials tomorrow, I should start preparing them today...
Me at 5 p.m.: But I don't wanna prepare for class right now!
Me at 11 p.m.: Okay, I guess I'll just plan this today...
Me at 2 a.m.: *has done like 80% of the work* But I'm not done yet! *falls asleep*

I'm supposed to send in regular reports, now that I'm teaching online. Fair enough, right? The University needs to know I'm doing my job. Ooookay. The reports have to be in a specific form. Fine. That makes it easier. So I filled in my report for this month and was just about to send it. I'd already got a couple of emails reminding me how urgent it ( Read more... )

Over the last six months or so time and to some degree even space has become pretty much meaningless. Everything that happened happened online, somewhere that wasn't even a real place. Getting up at six a.m. was not a thing. The world seemed a little bit unreal. A place that isn't here. A time that isn't today. The idea of 'all this' ending some ( Read more... )

So it's thesis defense season at the university. Usually the committee for a bachelor's thesis is three people, but this year nothing works as it ususlly does, so someone decided to add one extra member to each committee at the last moment. Yep. It's me. That's okay. But nobody seems to know what exactly I'm supposed to do ( Read more... )

The University asked me for a report, which I eventually sent. They told me it was no good. I had to print it out, sign it and send them a scan. So what if I don't have a printer or scanner? That's my problem. I printed and signed the document as soon as I could and thought that was it. Nope! Yesterday I got another email telling me there was a new ( Read more... )

So about a week ago I announced when and how I was going to organize that test. I'm sure I did ( Read more... )

Well, just the screen, really, but what difference does it make? I need to prepare a test for my students, but I can't see anything on my screen. It works fine when I'm not doing anything important, but as soon as I try to get some work done, the screen goes dark. The test is on Tuesday. How am I supposed to do my job now?!