It’s been an interesting day. One of the associate faculty at my Urban Commuter Campus resigned today for medical reasons, requiring our department chair to find people to fill his courses. Being the agreeable kind of guy I am who doesn’t have a social life, I mentioned that I could probably squeeze one of them into my schedule. (It’s on overload basis
, which means that I get extra money. I’ve been wanting an iPod for a while now…)
Anyhow, so the course in question is a second calculus course: diffy-qs, Taylor series, integration, a bit of multivariate. Except for that last, it’s all stuff that I was very bad at as an undergraduate. Fortunately next week is Spring Break for us, which will give me a week or so to learn all of it again… or, in some cases, for the first time.
But that’s all just background. After all this was decided and a textbook was found for me somewhere, I retired to my office. A little while later a student wandered in, asked if I was taking over Dr. So-and-so’s class, and then launched into a bit of a rant about how he didn’t think it was fair that his class was still going to have a test tomorrow when their last class was cancelled and their instructor was going away and blah blah blah. It took about ten seconds of this for me to determine that he was talking about one of the other classes, which was being taken over by someone else.
Gently, I pointed this out to him.
He looked at me for a second, and then resumed. Well, I still don’t think it’s fair…
On a related note, I’d like to thank my department secretaries for their aid in my continuing quest to direct things which are Other People’s Problems away from me.