Symptoms of Grad Student

Mood: Playful: It’s 1:45 a.m., and I’m still playing dynamite at Yahoo.☺

Currently playing,
Addictive
Artist
Truth Hurts featuring Rakim
“The Teaching Wheel”
After three weeks of living the life of an associate instructor here are a few of my important notes:

• A typical grad student averages three cans of diet soda and three packs of Chex Party Mix/Doritos/Cheez-It every week for a 3 credit hour class.
  
• A subject interesting to the instructor will have students bored to death!
  
• When one student nods and the rest don’t: good news and it means they’re making an effort. When all of them nod: bad news and guaranteed lack of attention.
  
• When reviewing student notes from the last class, you’ll experience illegibility at its best especially while proving theorems.
  
• The frequency of nods in class is directly proportional to the incidence of lllleetttteerrsss ttttyyppeeddddddd ttwwiiccee in the class review notes!
  
• Any student who gets a B is 100 percent sure he/she deserved an A.
  
• When an assignment problem is easy, your students will most probably find an answer that will take at least 10 hours of your 20-hour work schedule to understand and grade.
  
• Interestingly, when an assignment problem is hard, it will take five minutes to correct all the answer sheets. Everyone has the same answer.
  
• Two-week assignments are accomplished in less than two days: D.

Thoughts ? *a m m o h a n AT indiana DOT edu*

Mood: Forcibly sleepy! Need to wake up to get to school in time tomorrow morning.