a week and a half to go
12 months ago
just gotta push through the last of it…
How to survive this semester
It made me
Happy endings 
"Reading, typing, late nights, early mornings, heavy books, lots of mental yelling.... more computer time then I want to admit."
How I did it: Do your HW before its due, try to keep on the reading, learn to like late nights and early mornings, love google and know what the teacher is talking about.
Lessons & tips: seen above.
Resources: computer, books, google, my brain, car and gas for it
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RP is swimming through paper.
one more entry
18 months ago
for now. I finished grading today and handed them in. Some very nice graduate papers. Of course, some flakeouts, too, but this semester I didn’t feel I could do much about those students who insisted on self-sabotage.
RP is swimming through paper.
surviving is always preferable
18 months ago
to not surviving.
I’m perhaps a little premature, since I’m not actually done with grading yet. But it feels like I have survived, and better than before.
RP is swimming through paper.
I forgot
19 months ago
the grading that follows. About 25 research papers and assorted tests.
Not too bad, really.
RP is swimming through paper.
here is my latest countdown list
19 months ago
Wednesday
10:30 Conrad’s class
12:00 faculty meeting
5:00 review session
Friday
9:00 review for exam
10:00 exam
Sunday
7:00 make up class/party at my house for Verdi class
Monday
10:00 last class for Verdi
3:00 makeup exams for GR
RP is swimming through paper.
someone else on this goal
19 months ago
had a list. I’ll try it, I guess:
1. finish comments on all drafts that I receive by May 6th
2. grade all papers
3. announce evaluation revision in GR
4. administer tests and makeup tests in GR
5. host GV at my house
6. run seven more classes
7. administer evaluations
8. guest lecture in someone else’s class
9. email everyone in GR about homework status
Amy don't waste a day
rest of the semester:
2 years ago
To do:
lesson plans for the last week of classesMinicourse paperPaper proposal for Freud classAPA submissionFeminist theory paperFreud finalRevised case formulations for Advanced Clinical PracticeAdvanced Clinical Practice finalGrade all student papersWrite final exam intro. class and test reviewCalculate and submit final grades for studentsFinish intake reportOther clinic paperwork (therapy plan updates)Submit something to department conferenceFinish assessment report 1- Finish assessment report 2
- Freud paper (extended to Jan. 7)
Write next semester’s syllabus- Work on course design for Cultural Diversity
- plan the course I’m teaching as much as possible
- Read ahead for next semester’s courses
Finished
2 years ago
I took my last exam this past thursday, so I’m all done with my sophomore year. I feel like I should be elated, but I’m not. It seems like the stresses I deal with only serve to mask the much more difficult ones to come. Whenever I accomplish something, I’m faced with a more difficult task. I guess I should just get used to it and learn to accept that things will probably never be easy. Unfortunately, all I want to do is give up- just lay down and sleep forever…
Woo!
2 years ago
Just turned in grades for my last class this semester. Now it’s on to other projects and preparing for the next semester I’ll have to survive. =)
