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Twelve Hour Days

Posted by Stuart at 06:11 AM on February 13, 2003

I hate exams and now I can feel the pain from the other side. I've been putting in 12 hour days this week and the work seems to keep piling up: creating two mid-terms, creating two study guides, helping students who haven't studied all semeseter, creating homeworks, writing lectures, helping students who are starting to panic at the last minute, grading homeworks, helping students who are just now starting to ask questions, help proofread grammar on other teachers' final exams, helping students...

The proofreading assignments have been interesting. For example I found out that we have a class called "Cyber Marketing" that I think would be fun to teach. I was having NOVO flashbacks as I read the exam. It is also interesting to see very obviously what the differences in languages are, as the non-native English speakers make the same mistakes over and over. For example, there are no articles (a, an, the) in Thai, nor do you have to worry about subject-verb agreement. I wonder what the common mistakes are for non-native Thai speakers.

Actually it has all been interesting. I am still enjoying the work even though the hours have been long. The days fly by, so I guess that is a good sign.