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not dead or dying, just busy with school
i have a teacher kinda like this and i feel like she’s under appreciated
To the hero professors
So, I’m taking U.S. History one and two over the summer at my community college, and the professor is this older white man. Naturally, this is history, and my first assumption walking in to the class is that I’m gonna be stuck listening to this guy drone on for two months of boredom. Great.
Within the first five minutes I knew I was wrong. So, so wrong.
“I don’t want you to be stuck memorizing dates,” he says. “I want you to know the story, the people, the conditions and reactions so that maybe we can all learn from past mistakes.” I was baffled. A history class that doesn’t require you to be able to rattle off dates? Not only that, there’s no homework and we don’t have to read the text book. The only things that are going to be on the test are things that come straight out of his mouth during class. He introduces himself, and proceeds to go around the room and greets every person one at a time. He will do this every day for the rest of the summer one and two semesters.
Then the lecture begins. I say lecture, but it feels more like story time in kindergarten. He begins to speak with such prose and personality that I forget this is a college course. He’s taken something that has so much potential to be mundane and turned it in to a book that I can’t put down. You bibliophiles know what I’m talking about. And then this glorious fucker ends the class in a mid-sentence cliffhanger.
Every class he carries on this way. It feels as if I’m there. Signing the Declaration, fighting against brothers in the Civil War, listening to FDR’s fireside chats, storming the beaches of Normandy… And he remains unbiased. He wants to make sure we see there’s two sides to every story; understand the conditions that lead to those reactions.
We took a test today, a week from our final exam. He goes around the room in his usual affable fashion, but rather than just ask how we’re doing, today he asks if there’s anything he can do for us. Most folks like myself say something along the lines of nothing, or I’m good. This girl next to me jokingly says, “You can buy me a coffee.”
“How much is it?” He asks.
“About five dollars.” She answers.
And without hesitation, this professor, this wonderful man with a love of teaching, and a love of his students, pulls out a fucking twenty dollar bill, hands it to her and just says “Go get your coffee, and bring me the change.” Then continues on his way like it’s nothing.
And it may be nothing. Maybe I’m blowing something small out of proportion. But in a world where it feels as if every class is just dragging you along in the gravel behind it, and the professors seem to just be going through the motions; to see someone actually do something kind and ask nothing in return is so refreshing and uplifting.
I don’t know. Maybe this is just a boring shit post, but I really needed to share my appreciation for this hero of a teacher. A teacher who after over 30 years of teaching is still happy with what he does.
tl;dr: Some teachers leave a long lasting impact on your life; change the way you think, the way you see the world. Appreciate them for what they are. The unsung heroes of a failing education system.
Whaddup Im Jared Im 19 and i never fucking learned to get seretonin in a healthy way
Ah to be a lizard, sitting on rock, naked, basking in the sunlight, and not giving a fuck.
Ever drank 400ml espresso in 15 minutes? A little peace of advice, whatever you do, whatever choices you make, no matter how tired you are, don't do it.
source - me
We will never learn...
that moment when school starts TOMORROW but you haven't even started your summer essay-
I'm gonna CRY my english assignment is due tomorrow morning and I'm only halfway done and it's such a stupid assignment it's not even important but it doesn't make sense but besties I don't feel like getting yelled at by a poem obsessed bitch HLEP-
*laughs in free university
And then one day, you don't get the job done, the illusion collapses into a black hole of anxiety and stress, and you simply scroll away your sorrows, waiting for the next deadline while looking at cute kittens and reading smartass quotes that validate your lack of energy.
Nervous and excited as I go back to school 😅 maybe I should take some school pictures 😏
Got coffee and tea with @angelsbeautifuluniverse before school
School has started... and oh God for what sins you're doing this to me? From now on I need to stydy, meet those idiots from my class everyday and wake up early in the morning ;-;
Ugo Harris - class president
Your teacher paired you up for a school project with THE Ugo Harris. That's good, right? You have a chance to improve your grades by working with the golden boy of your school. If only Ugo didn't hate you with the same passion he loves his role in bramley high school after you found out about his family secret
Ugo's masterlist:
Coming soon! :3
Main masterlist
If I go to office hours and the professor isn't there, I take that as a sign from the universe to never talk to them again
3rd comic
Internet can be troublesome >.< especially if it doesn’t work at all.
how this seasonal depression is hitting me
just found out i’m failing earth science because i missed a test when i had an epic stomach ache
"Nothing lasts forever, but you were gone too soon"
NO, NO U DONT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING.. NO NO NOT AGAIN UGHHHH
im having a flare up of back pain at school and im afraid to stand up because i know that as soon as my backpack touches my back that my vision will go black again, and a bolt of lightning will shoot up my spine again, and ill feel like im falling when im not again, and i already have a headache from the fluorescents again
and i cant go to the nurse again, because shell send me home again, and i cant get behind again, not with a history test tomorrow and a math cumulative thurday and a science quiz also on thursday
and im so fucking tired and i wish i hadnt gotten up this morning and i just want to go home and watch a movie with a heating pad on or just fall asleep forever
Like just leave me alone
Just please leave me alone