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...not that it's very creative, but it also includes a new icon. Yes, that is Snoop in the background:
Talking with Autumn just made me remember this: I'm taking the Organic Chem course I need this semester at the Zoo. On the first day of class, the prof announced that it was overenrolled. This wasn't surprising to any of the students, since the lecture hall was packed; the aisles were filled with people sitting on the steps, the wheelchair area was full of kids sitting on the ground, and some students were peeking their heads into the room, as there was no longer standing room in the back. He announced that we'd get to sit down in a week or two, since people would stop coming to class... not drop the course, but stop coming until the exam date. This was bewildering, since I was in an aisle (someone dropped her notebook on my back, too), and I really thought it was reasonable to expect a desk to sit in. Friday was the first time I got to sit in a desk, and it was true... at least fifty students had stopped attending lecture by that point.
Balding Postbac sits in front of me, and seems to have trouble curbing his enthusiasm for Organic-freaking-chemistry :( He's loud, obnoxious, and not really aware that other people think so. Friday, his cell phone went off... and he answered it. From his seat in the first row, basically on top of the overhead projector. The prof seemed incredulous, and requested, "Can you take that call outside, please?"
"OK," grinned B.P., as he bounded across the front of the lecture hall toward the door. After a brief conversation, and some fiddling with the volume on his phone (all of which was audible in the classroom), he returned.
But it's all OK, because UMass has a bubble tea shop in the student center! And I plan on having a tea-belly by the end of this semester... Mmmm...
Talking with Autumn just made me remember this: I'm taking the Organic Chem course I need this semester at the Zoo. On the first day of class, the prof announced that it was overenrolled. This wasn't surprising to any of the students, since the lecture hall was packed; the aisles were filled with people sitting on the steps, the wheelchair area was full of kids sitting on the ground, and some students were peeking their heads into the room, as there was no longer standing room in the back. He announced that we'd get to sit down in a week or two, since people would stop coming to class... not drop the course, but stop coming until the exam date. This was bewildering, since I was in an aisle (someone dropped her notebook on my back, too), and I really thought it was reasonable to expect a desk to sit in. Friday was the first time I got to sit in a desk, and it was true... at least fifty students had stopped attending lecture by that point.
Balding Postbac sits in front of me, and seems to have trouble curbing his enthusiasm for Organic-freaking-chemistry :( He's loud, obnoxious, and not really aware that other people think so. Friday, his cell phone went off... and he answered it. From his seat in the first row, basically on top of the overhead projector. The prof seemed incredulous, and requested, "Can you take that call outside, please?"
"OK," grinned B.P., as he bounded across the front of the lecture hall toward the door. After a brief conversation, and some fiddling with the volume on his phone (all of which was audible in the classroom), he returned.
But it's all OK, because UMass has a bubble tea shop in the student center! And I plan on having a tea-belly by the end of this semester... Mmmm...