Almost Done
In two days the summer semester will over and I can finally rest. These next two days are going to be easy. I give the finals tomorrow and on Thursday I just give out final grades if the students want them. I have to be here anyways and I've learned never to give a final on the very last day of the semester. We don't have a finals week here. You just give it on the last class, or as most of us do now, on the second to last class.
I'm also settled in my new office. It took a while to get things organized. I showed up in my old office yesterday to find everything gone. Maintenance finally got around to moving my stuff. Unfortunately, they put all my stuff in the wrong spot. Also, as I was very impatient last night, I did not wait for IT to hook up my computer and did it myself.
I'm trying my best to personalize my new cinderblock fluorescent hell with pictures and stuff. The Devils 2009 calendar is up and so is my favorite quote: Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem ("In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags"). Yes, it's grumpy but it makes me feel good. It's better than all that motivational shit you normally see in offices. To me, insulting my students (in a way they will never get) is so much more motivational especially at the end of a semester when they all come in begging for higher grades. However, now that I share an office with a whole bunch of English professors, I'm afraid one of them may know Latin and ask me to take it down. Then I'll find a nice insult in Russian. :)
I did finish my forensic psych take home final. It ended up a smidge over 10 pages and took about four days to complete. I only managed a 26/30 on it, which is an 87. That's about what I was expecting since some of the questions on the exam were really tough. This, however, brings my average down to a 93. This could mean an A- instead of an A. I'll have to wait to see when the final grades are posted to see what I got. Don't get me wrong. An A- is good. I just really wanted the A.
I'm also settled in my new office. It took a while to get things organized. I showed up in my old office yesterday to find everything gone. Maintenance finally got around to moving my stuff. Unfortunately, they put all my stuff in the wrong spot. Also, as I was very impatient last night, I did not wait for IT to hook up my computer and did it myself.
I'm trying my best to personalize my new cinderblock fluorescent hell with pictures and stuff. The Devils 2009 calendar is up and so is my favorite quote: Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem ("In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags"). Yes, it's grumpy but it makes me feel good. It's better than all that motivational shit you normally see in offices. To me, insulting my students (in a way they will never get) is so much more motivational especially at the end of a semester when they all come in begging for higher grades. However, now that I share an office with a whole bunch of English professors, I'm afraid one of them may know Latin and ask me to take it down. Then I'll find a nice insult in Russian. :)
I did finish my forensic psych take home final. It ended up a smidge over 10 pages and took about four days to complete. I only managed a 26/30 on it, which is an 87. That's about what I was expecting since some of the questions on the exam were really tough. This, however, brings my average down to a 93. This could mean an A- instead of an A. I'll have to wait to see when the final grades are posted to see what I got. Don't get me wrong. An A- is good. I just really wanted the A.
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