Today is the first day of Spring term classes, which means there's one obvious question to ask:
What am I forgetting?
I've spent the last few days alternating baby duty with frantic class prep, and I think I've got everything ready. I'm bound to be forgetting something, though. So what is it? What's the thing I forgot to do that's going to lead to a mad scramble just before the class starts at 10:30?
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So far, we've been talking mainly about the ZFC axiomatization of set theory, but in fact,
when I've talked about classes, I've really been talking about the von
It's college admissions season, which means a steady influx of high-school seniors thinking about coming here next year, making campus visits. Most of these students sit in on at least one class, to get an idea of what it's like.
This is one of those times when being a non-anonymous blogger is a little inconvenient. Nonetheless, I think I can make things a little vague and change a few names and I'll be ok.
The Dean Dad asks a question on the minds of lots of faculty: how do you handle early-morning classes?
Basketball bag? Or are you not playing this term?
Pants?
(Or, more seriously: enough copies of the syllabus/course notes/whatever for everyone. I always end up with too few.)
If you are like me (and I have my doubts), it is the location of the class. Every semester I get everything ready for the first class, and I mean absolutely everything, just to discover a little too late that I don't know where the class takes place. Same goes for seminars, any kind of meetings, etc. etc.
Walking the dog.
your flash memory thumb drive
The answer, for those who care is that I was forgetting to check that the projector worked with my tablet. Which it does, albeit in a slightly different manner than the other classrooms where I've used it, leading to a couple of extremely nervous minutes just before class.