THIS. I remember every nice/ affirming comment a professor has ever said to me / written on an assignment. I reread them when I’m feeling insecure.5yr ⋅ blivs17 ⋅ r/Professors
I can only roll my eyes so many times before they fall out of my head. 🙄4yr ⋅ ZzKnightQueen ⋅ r/Professors
The old classroom rule If your teacher is 15 minutes late you can leave class1yr ⋅ Ned_Gutters ⋅ r/Professors
Let me just check this email from the administrative assistant real quick...2yr ⋅ RhinestoneTaco ⋅ r/Professors
A post a colleague made on FB. Couldn't sum up my current situation any better than this.4yr ⋅ GriIIedCheesus ⋅ r/Professors
Accidentally wore my Makers Mark bourbon pin to my college staff meeting this morning. Never noticed it because because beard obscured it and no one pointed it out. Maybe MM will endorse me.1yr ⋅ ConstantGeographer ⋅ r/Professors
Daughter shared this with me (we live in a small college town and she's seen it happen).5yr ⋅ Plug_5 ⋅ r/Professors
I am concerned that an occurrence in class may be affecting my learning ability. One member of this class is sitting in front of me in a way that I feel is disresp...1yr ⋅ hiImProfThrowaway ⋅ r/Professors
Controversial given many of our syllabi, but I think it is important to have this conversation.5yr ⋅ zubrin ⋅ r/Professors
[xpost] My students' reactions when I release grades and they didn't follow the prompt.5yr ⋅ DrinkUpGuys ⋅ r/Professors
Me when a student uses Infowars as a “reputable informative source” in his annotated bib after we spent 3 whole class periods on source reputability and evaluation5yr ⋅ teddy_vedder ⋅ r/Professors
However, only about 10% of my students are even viewing my lessons and videos, so there’s that.3yr ⋅ chrisrayn ⋅ r/Professors
If true, how sad should I be that I make less than 1/2 what a Car Wash manager makes? Yes, I get the non-monetary benefits of my occupation. But that's a lot of money to leave on the table...1yr ⋅ winterneuro ⋅ r/Professors
This one is actually an email from a student to my husband. Classes ended a week ago.2yr ⋅ AHairInMyCheeseFries ⋅ r/Professors
From the facepalm files: My student plagiarized ME, to ME. Several lines of what I thought were helpful margin comments (in one of those speech bubbles MS Word uses) ended up verbatim in his essay revision, including this underlined part...5yr ⋅ askingquestionsblog ⋅ r/Professors
Me reading a 3-page email from a student exhaustively detailing why they deserve a single point more on their exam.5yr ⋅ doctordoggodoggo ⋅ r/Professors
Co-teaching a class for the first time this semester. Co-teacher doesn't pull his weight at all and I feel like I have to carry him through every lecture.3yr ⋅ acrunchygirl ⋅ r/Professors
I’m pretty sure this is what happens when a student plagiarizes but use the synonym tool so much it confuses Turnitin (and me... I have no idea what this student is saying)4yr ⋅ heckenyaax ⋅ r/Professors
Hahaha our professor said we could study so I studied everything that'll show them2yr ⋅ guttata ⋅ r/Professors
My professor's reaction when I explain my solution during office hours5yr ⋅ myotherbannisabenn ⋅ r/Professors
Applying for an inexplicably huge grant to study something really niche4yr ⋅ Dontdodis825 ⋅ r/Professors
Seriously though, the Eyewitness series comes up at least once a semester. (usually cited in a paper lol) Many of my students (not just the boys) loved these books as kids and seem to think they are just the bee's knees.1yr ⋅ GATX303 ⋅ r/Professors
Because we’re posting texts from students...who could’ve easily looked up my email...3yr ⋅ lasauvagesse ⋅ r/Professors
I'm just a phd student that has taught a couple of times, but this really spoke to me. I did this once in spring when someone asked me a question I did not know an answer to - I told them I'd get back to them . I felt like such a failure at the time.5yr ⋅ Cantos ⋅ r/Professors
I can't believe after all this time that I still somehow do this haha3yr ⋅ JillAteJack ⋅ r/Professors
Ad hoc COVID classroom. N.B. essential and strategic use of full pot of coffee within reach.3yr ⋅ innerstrife ⋅ r/Professors
Repost with my my email better obscured. Thanks for point that out. And again, it was my email showing not the students. I don’t mind doxing myself. :)3yr ⋅ amprok ⋅ r/Professors
Discovered a new way of signing off my emails; going to see how long it takes somebody to say anything2yr ⋅ ConceptOfHangxiety ⋅ r/Professors
If you're like me, you get too many emails from students that just start with Hey, and then into the ask. After seeing this today, who is going to join me in starting the reply to those emails with the older timer response?1yr ⋅ winterneuro ⋅ r/Professors
I know the pedagogical value of exams, but from the student's perspective, this is pretty funny!5yr ⋅ swampyankee22 ⋅ r/Professors
Logging into the LMS on my phone and tapping the dual factor authentication on that same phone2yr ⋅ hiImProfThrowaway ⋅ r/Professors
Email etiquette is my biggest pet peeve. No greeting, no signature to say who they are, what class this is for, nothing in the subject line, used a . instead of a ?, didn't capitalize the first I, used a instead of an, and they clearly haven't read the syllabus or they'd know how grading works.2yr ⋅ GriIIedCheesus ⋅ r/Professors
Today I hit a new milestone. I finally received did I miss anything? As much as I feel like replying with Tom Wayman's poem, I think it would be better yo share it with the whole class. The suggested reply by Teams feels offensive though.3yr ⋅ doireallyhaveto2 ⋅ r/Professors
The corporate leaders they put on your state university boards often have no idea how universities work.2yr ⋅ DrSandbags ⋅ r/Professors
I find it highly satisfying that teachers have been marking errors and corrections in red ink since at least 2000 BCE.3yr ⋅ GobHoblin87 ⋅ r/Professors
My current thoughts on how the Fall 2020 semester will go are simply the shrug emoji.4yr ⋅ chrisrayn ⋅ r/Professors
Substitute “iced coffee” for “cocaine” and [whatever dumb thing I’m doing at the time] for “brain anatomy” and my phone calls to my mom from the stairway of a professional conference are verbatim Freud’s letters to his fiancee Martha4yr ⋅ Judythe8 ⋅ r/Professors
My TA's is when I post a homework but haven't sent them the homework solutions yet.2yr ⋅ sp8rks ⋅ r/Professors
The students I withdrew from my course at midterm after emailing them multiple times with a warning, no response to my emails until the week after they were withdrawn. Why the F didn't you respond to the first 20 emails?!? Perhaps log in to the LMS and do something, anything before it's too late!3yr ⋅ ProfessorCH ⋅ r/Professors
Their (11) final grades, I learned a lot from them, looking forward to the fall2yr ⋅ Maximus8890 ⋅ r/Professors
Cheers to Spring 2022...did any of you manage to stop drinking since Fall ended? 🍻2yr ⋅ Strandon8 ⋅ r/Professors
My new favorite mnemonic for the cell cycle: Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, and Cytokinesis4yr ⋅ NoSatellite ⋅ r/Professors
I haven’t logged into the LMS in seven weeks and haven’t done a single assignment. Is there some extra credit I can do to get a C?6mo ⋅ Fossilslut ⋅ r/Professors
I made this trash surreal-y MEME to remind students to submit Course Evals. Feel Free to Use.2yr ⋅ Mtt76812 ⋅ r/Professors
Last night I got caught up on grading papers. I made this to ameliorate the eye twitches.6yr ⋅ Guy_Jantic ⋅ r/Professors
Rumor has it that the secrets of Area 51 were released in a Intro to Psychology syllabus during the 70’s, but no one even kept their copy past the first week.4yr ⋅ Murasama23 ⋅ r/Professors
My uni just announced no f2f classes to keep students safe... but faculty are still required to be on campus4yr ⋅ Superfluous1 ⋅ r/Professors
At least he is using a scholarly research paper and not the first hit on Google.5yr ⋅ Eggler ⋅ r/Professors
We really do live in age now in which all pretense has been dropped.4yr ⋅ NutellaDeVil ⋅ r/Professors