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[charloween]

Two days with froshies and I'm officially ready to collapse for a while. It might have been the hour in line to get the Metropass that really did me in, but I'm completely wiped.

What blew my mind is that these kids I was teaching/leading/calming were born in 1988. I'm not that much older than them, but younger than my little brother sounds quite young to me. I did have fun scaring them a little. Your entire mark is based on writing essays! Classes can be large! Every hour in class translates to five hours of homework/studying! Scariest of all is when I was up at the blackboard in front of my group, chalk in hand... it was really fun.

In other news: this week, John Vanderslice's band is called John Vanderslice and He's Burning His Fingers On the Stove, Feat. Bubba Sparxxx, Feat. Sadat X, Feat. Gigan and Lil' Gratitude. Log list here of all the suggestions/used names. Me, I'd vote for John Vanderslice and the Vanderstripes (or John Vanderslice and Crazy Norse, hee hee!), but I'm working on no sleep, no food and 130% stress. I think when we saw him it was John Vanderslice and Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday.

I mention this only because this morning his song "Dead Slate Pacific" was the most beautiful thing I'd heard. ysi link. About it, he says: "no one can save you, but believing that someone can may save you".

Comments

[aoshi.livejournal.com]

God those are some hilarious fucking band names. XD Seriously when he's back in town, were going to see him again, yes? and were going to love him as we make new songs featuring his name?

And, aw, were they being at all sort of cute in there dorkish "I'm a first year student" sort of way, Charlotte? XD; Glad you had some fun!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

Yes, those band names are *great*. I was checking his site to see if he'd be back soon and found that he's recording a new album (yay!) and will be bouncing between Europe and Australia this fall (boo!).

The kids were part keener dork and part too cool for this and part ZOMG STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL KILL YOU NOW KTHNX. I want to be a professor because of the research and academic side, but this was the first time I was teaching and it felt cool (which is good, considering profs have to teach...). :D

john vanderslice & his DDR troupe

[philthe25th.livejournal.com]

Oh, Scott Solter is producing [he did Pixel Revolt and The Mountain Goats' latest]. Goodie!

Professor Stevens? Heh heh. Scare them little bastards good.

JV and the Bag Ties!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

JV and the Mountain Goats was on the list... JV and the Unhealthy Obsession? JV and his Umbrellas? JV and the Knotted Ribbon? JV and the Paperclips? JV and Loose Change? JV and a Lightbulb? (Okay, now I'm just listing the things on my desk.)

Professor Stevens has a nice ring to it. Hee!

[0skylark0.livejournal.com]

Man, I know I'm going to look at the Acadia frosh this year and go "holy shit... that was us, three years ago..." It's fun to scare the younger years with horror stories though: "and then we had to do HUGE ESSAYS every other week! And weekly math assignments! and..." *chuckles* It's just amusing to be the survivor.

Children, just *children*, I tell you!

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

You should have seen their faces when I told them they were going to have something due by the end of the month. Oh no! And they wanted to know if the first class was going to be a "real" lecture or if they were going to just give them the course outline and send them home. Uh... you only have 12 weeks, they're not going to let you off that easy.

One of them sqeaked when I gave them the one-class-hour = five-homework-hours talk. "Oh, we have to do the readings before class?" Yeah-huh, sweetie. 1000 word term paper? Oh NOES, how will they ever survive. It's strange that what seems huge to me (5K words) is a bit different from what seems huge to them (1500 words).

Half of what I was doing was reassuring them that it wasn't going to be as bad as they've heard (profs *won't* fail you if your works cited page is missing a comma somewhere) but that it was going to be different/worse (profs won't even *see* your paper, so cultivate your TAs from the word go).