sooo busy

This quarter sucks–everything that I am taking has just a little bit more reading than normal, but all together it means a lot more. I’m drowning.

Let me preface this by saying that in general, both of the sections for the class that I TA this quarter are pretty great. However…. They have paper due next week, so I had them work on them in class today, just so that they would have a topic and central argument to think about before the weekend. While most of them seemed to get something out of it, a girl actually raised her hand about five minutes into it and said, “This seems more like a rough draft exercise and I don’t have my book.” I offered to lend her my book.  She continued, “I don’t usually do drafts, that isn’t how I write, and I actually have a Chemistry midterm in an hour that’s really important…” I told her if she didn’t care about my class and had better things to do, then to please go ahead and do them.  I’ll just mark that she left in the roll book. Of course, she started saying she did care and I gave her the evil eye. I also reminded her that she was supposed to be working in partners and that maybe her partner would be able to give her some ideas that she wouldn’t have thought of herself. The nerve of some students. As if I am supposed to make lesson plans according to how she likes to do her papers! I bet hers will be bad, too.