The power goes to my head and no mistake
Dec. 19th, 2009 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ifeelbetterNo, really. I feel like a god with all this grading power. And I already know this is one long trick played on my and my fellow grad students by universities of the world but ... I can give people A's! Or not! I choose!
That being said, it is also a massive pain in my ass. I swear, you'd think after me saying things like "I will FAIL YOU if you tell me Shakespeare is 'famous' and 'interesting' as a thesis again. I mean it and I have the power!" they would have listened. But noooooooo. I still get waffle by the truckload. Also: if an essay prompt asks "How are madness and fooling related in King Lear?" that means it is NOT ACCEPTABLE to make your thesis "Fooling and madness are related in King Lear."
On the sweet end of the lollipop again, I got re-assigned to AWESOME next semester. I am TAing for Halperin's "Ancient Sexuality/Modern Homosexuality" which makes me almost cry with joy. Students are required, the class after Valentine's Day, to enact their own Symposium by performing 2-4 min. speeches in praise of Eros. I swear...one of the classes, I may just blow up from awesome overload. Like a Dickens villain but HAPPY.
This almost (ALMOST) takes the sting away from all TV being gone. BUT NOT QUITE.
That being said, it is also a massive pain in my ass. I swear, you'd think after me saying things like "I will FAIL YOU if you tell me Shakespeare is 'famous' and 'interesting' as a thesis again. I mean it and I have the power!" they would have listened. But noooooooo. I still get waffle by the truckload. Also: if an essay prompt asks "How are madness and fooling related in King Lear?" that means it is NOT ACCEPTABLE to make your thesis "Fooling and madness are related in King Lear."
On the sweet end of the lollipop again, I got re-assigned to AWESOME next semester. I am TAing for Halperin's "Ancient Sexuality/Modern Homosexuality" which makes me almost cry with joy. Students are required, the class after Valentine's Day, to enact their own Symposium by performing 2-4 min. speeches in praise of Eros. I swear...one of the classes, I may just blow up from awesome overload. Like a Dickens villain but HAPPY.
This almost (ALMOST) takes the sting away from all TV being gone. BUT NOT QUITE.
