Semester beginning

Today was the first day of Late Registration for beginning students for the spring term. Today we had transfer students which poses its own brand of problems for us because we have to figure out what transferred and what didn’t in order to know what classes to sign them up for. Tomorrow will be far busier as we’re slated to have about five times as many students coming in. I have yet to revamp my syllabus for this up-coming semester. There won’t be a lot to change, but I am going to begin the “Your @#$%^&* phone goes off in class and I’m docking you points” policy at the start of the year as opposed to later once it has been annoying me for a while. I also shouldn’t have as many students this term because I’m teaching one section only and there won’t be as many in-coming Open Preference freshmen. Class is at nine on Monday, so I’ve got this afternoon and this weekend to work on it. Too bad tomorrow will be too busy for me to do much. I think I’ll give it a once over right now. Hope everyone else’s day is going productively!

5 thoughts on “Semester beginning”

  1. Lushbaugh

    I went outside:

    I guess that's productive. I also cleaned my car out a little, it's been bugging me for a bit.

  2. Miller

    I wish:

    you'd been there when I transferred in. I was advised only to take 12 hours so as not to overly stress myself. And because of the lack of stress, that ended up being my lowest GPA semester at ISU.

  3. Katie

    Good luck!:

    I never thought of people leaving their cell phones on in class. I went to school back in the "old days" when hardly anybody had a cell phone (and the few people that had pagers were smart enough to put them on vibrate).

  4. Erandomandethius

    True:

    I didn't have to worry about cell phones in class really until the last couple years, but the in-coming students ALL have them and none of them want to turn them off because "insert some friend/boyfriend/girlfriend/co-worker" might call to talk about weekend plans or whatever. They piss me off!

    And as for being your advisor, Miller, I think I would have done a good job with you 'cause you're patient and willing to work. I wouldn't have put you in twelve hours; I would have let you take whatever load you thought you could handle. 🙂

  5. Jamie

    I can't wait!:

    Your job is much more stressful. I just have to wait for classes to start.

    Whee ha my last 14 hours as an undergrad evar!!!

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