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by House Of Sims

Well, I made it through a tough first year, and I'm back to give it another go. I got to campus later than I wanted (and was subsequently late for class introductions), I couldn't find the key to my office, and I got a ticket because I hadn't purchased my parking pass. I hope that these are not indicators of the semester that I should expect.

In spite of the fact that I had all of these ideas for how I would approach teaching developmental mathematics, I have been reassigned to teach precalculus labs. It's been a while, but I think it will be alright. I teach these on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

Two of my three classes are on Tuesday and Thursday nights. My third class meets five Saturdays throughout the semester. Everything else for that class will be online. As you can imagine, I will be exhausted on Tuesday and Thursday nights. And with my luck, all of my children's school programs will fall on those nights, so I will feel like the absent mother.

Wish I could say that I'll catch up on my rest Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but I will be holding office hours and getting homework done on those days. A grad student's work is never done! But I'm blessed to be having this experience, so I'll do my best not to complain. It wouldn't change anything, right?