Seniors Go Bye-Bye

Posted by on May 29, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Graduation’s over! Goodbye to the Class of ’08. They were a decent class–definitely a step up from last year, given their accomplishments and their overall behavior–but we were ready to watch them walk. Seniors during the last week of school are absolutely NUTS. This group was no different. Tomorrow night, I spend my last night with them at Project Graduation. This should...
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End of the Dawn Patrol

Posted by on May 14, 2008 in dish | 3 comments Last night, our local school board–in a cost-saving measure–voted to switch the school start times for middle and high schools. So instead of reporting at 7:10 am, we high school folks will now start at 9:30. This also means that Mr. Tuba, my soon-to-be middle schooler, will be waiting for a bus to deliver him to school at 7:30. Yep, in the dark part of the year.I don’t know...
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Last Lecture

Posted by on Oct 15, 2007 in dish | 0 comments My friend Nancy sent me a link to this short video, a clip of a “last lecture” given by a prefessor at Carnegie-Mellon University. Universities across the US are featuring last lecture programs, inviting well-known professors to deliver the wisdom they really would like to impart before departing. What’s the catch here? Dr. Prautsch has terminal pancreatic cancer and is...
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Gone, Baby, Gone!

Posted by on May 10, 2007 in dish | 0 comments La, la, la, last day for seniors!Tomorrow will be such a relief compared to the beginning of this week. Seniors up my nose. Seniors whining about paying dues (not like they’ve known about senior dues since last August or anything). Seniors wanting to know if I’ve graded their final exams 15.2 minutes after completing them. I know they’re ready to fly out of the nest, and...
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Back From the Beyond…

Posted by on May 6, 2007 in dish | 0 comments It’s graduation season, and that means that my brain has been co-opted by the evil minions of the Class of 2007–aka all of my seniors. They are driving. me. CRAZY. Thankfully, senior exams are this week (guess I’d better get mine down to the copy room, huh?), so their last day is in sight. Yay!Only a few more days. That, and about 80 research papers to grade. Ugh.
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