Monday of the Second Week
Funny thing about college teaching . . . the first week is just that . . . and for the most part a wash of syllabi disbursement, the "this is what you will and will not do" lectures, and then the second class is disrupted by students with little sense of social decorum. These are usually the ones who do not show up the first day of class. Eh, don't get me wrong, I do what I love and love what I do . . . but, every now and then social disorder annoys me. Along with the first week madness, there is the beginning of sign-ins. Some students begin this task the first week. Some start it the second week. Most do it the second week, as the add-drop period ends. Moments of advising the first week are never anything like the second, particularly if these students are in upper level seminars and grades have started coming in from the first week's assignments. While advising times are established throughout the semester, any professor worth ...