Today I finished the last of my formal lectures for this semester. \u00a0Y-A-Y-!!!!!! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
On the whole this winter has been less panicky than last fall-quarter, but I’ve been very busy juggling two classes simultaneously, one of which was brand-spankin’-new!<\/p>\n
The schedule dictated that I taught four days per week (no teaching on Tuesdays). \u00a0 On top of that I had both classes turn in weekly homeworks (that had to be prepared, solved, and graded), one on Mondays, and the other on Tuesdays. \u00a0I’ve had a horrendous turn-around-time, with the Monday submissions returned on Fridays (sometimes Thursdays, sometimes much later), and the Tuesday submissions returned on the following Monday. \u00a0I get no Speedy-Gonzales awards, that’s for sure!<\/p>\n
I think what has been most draining is the knowledge that this schedule would go on for 14 weeks (!!), with the same tasks needing to be done every particular weekday, on repeat. \u00a0Another sticking point has been me needing to work evenings and weekends, just to get everything done in time.<\/p>\n
I’ve decided that it must be a vicious cycle. \u00a0One starts out with high\u00a0aspirations, and easily finishing tasks on time. \u00a0As time wears on though, one gets tired, and the tasks start taking a longer time, meaning one works evenings, which means one is more mentally tired the next day, which means less gets done, which means working in the evening\/weekend, etc. etc.<\/p>\n
It’s not all been misery though. \u00a0I’ve had some good times in class, seeing the occasional light-bulb go off, here and there. \u00a0That’s always fun. \u00a0I also had reason to play this<\/a> at the end of class today. \u00a0Good times! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I finished the last of my formal lectures for this semester. \u00a0Y-A-Y-!!!!!! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 On the whole this winter has been less panicky than last fall-quarter, but I’ve been very busy juggling two classes simultaneously, one of which was brand-spankin’-new! The schedule dictated that I taught four days per week (no teaching on Tuesdays). \u00a0Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4373,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4371\/revisions\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}