June 2009 Weddings
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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SBS
How are your classes going? How is juggling the student/professor divide?
Re: SBS
Haha, it depends on when you ask me!
Here's my breakdown for this semester:
2 Speech Classes, 36 students each (72 total)
1 Writing Class, 20 students
1 Upper Div. Lit Class, 40 students*
*I'm technically an intern for this, but the professor/mentor is really taking it more as a "team teaching" internship, so there's a bunch of classes I'm solely responsible for -- next week being one of them!
The student part is fitting in quite well, actually. But that could be just because I've been pretty motivated the past couple weeks, and the subject matter is interesting to me. Plus, I'm working on my thesis, and since the New Moon movie is coming out soon, I can't go anywhere without seeing Twilight stuff (which, essentially, means that every time I see it I think something thesis related and go home to write notes/read theory).
How's your semester?
Is your thesis based on vampires? This sounds interesting.....I need details.
Also, you are teaching more classes than I taught when I was a full time faculty, and I didn't have class. how do you even have time to be on here?
My semester is going well, I'm realy happy to be working. I'm really tired tonight, these night classes are exhausting. I'm trying to figure out how to make my grad class different from my undergrad class, even though the material is nearly identical. I'm just trying to move a little faster, but there are some students in the class that the subject seems brand new (I'd say maybe 1/4 of the class). So, I slow it down a little, and the smart ones, who remember their first stats class, are bored and probably want to jam something sharp in my jugular. And, I want to keep the smart ones on my side. *sigh* I hate disenchanted faces staring back at me. I mean, I know its stats and all, but still...
My thesis IS based on vampires. Mostly how the role of the human female in vampire relationships (specifically, Mina Harker in Dracula and Bella Swan/Cullen in the Twilight Saga) are representative of the evolution of the feminist movement from Victorian times to now.
As I keep writing/researching, I'll be sure to fill in the very large gaps in that train of thought!
The Nest and Facebook are my reality escapes -- you know, when you can't possibly read one more sentence in a text or grade one more student paper? Yeah, that's when I run here. Haha.
As far as your grad class goes, tell 'em to buck up and deal with it (on either end!). Then again, my pedagogy tend to be to teach to the high middle/high end acheiving students and make everyone work to keep up with them. More often than not I find that the "lower" performing students are just lazy, and I don't have time for laziness. Though, if they really do struggle, I'm ridiculously availble in terms of e-mail, in person office hours, and online office hours, so they really don't have an excuse. I tend to be more lenient with the lower "grades", but grad students? Psh, you're choosing to do this to yourself, keep up!