Tonight at class was great, and for various reasons.
At one point, our usually-rather-serious-and-exhausted teacher is mentioning something she has said to us many a times, and I have to do an audio double-take:
“Did you just quote yourself with blah blah?”
She pauses… looks at me…, “I did.”
She ever so slightly smiles…, “I did.”
And then she, along with us, breaks into chuckles laughter, as she explains how she needn’t always be serious and that she finds it important for her to offer some humor for us from time to time, so we can remember that she is not just a mean old professor, but that she is a human being.
Then we went all into how students regularly think she’s mean and grades ‘too hard’ on assignments (definitely false on both accounts, but we could see how kids could think that).
And, somehow, it was all entirely relevant to what we were aiming to cover in class tonight, and we tied it all in with our research methods topics of the night, everyone participating in the conversation (at last!).
It was a great class meeting tonight. 🙂
Post-a-day 2018
hannah ananas 