Wednesday, April 27, 2005

The Sounds of Silence

Must be the end of the semester. It's awfully quiet around here.

3 Comments:

At 6:02 PM, Blogger sharon said...

Well, I still have seven weeks to go, before I get a week break and then I have eight weeks of summer session,.....so when folks started to suggest the year was ending...... it made me tired. Gotta love the quarter system.

 
At 10:15 PM, Blogger clc said...

Ouch! Sorry, Sharon, that was rather insensitive on my part. I've never taught or been a student at a place with a quarter system, and I tend to forget such a thing exists.

Hang in there!

 
At 4:36 AM, Blogger Jane said...

It's fascinating - reading about quarter systems, and I guess the effect of a different hemisphere...We're just past mid-semester (about eight weeks still to go - because we start interviewing prospective students after the current ones leave/change classes - whatever. I think this is the very worst time of year for me: we are desperately working out which Learning Outcomes we still have to cover; students are panicking that they won't complete; staff have to become careers advisors overnight; it's getting freezing cold at night; leaves are falling - quickly and ingloriously this year...everyone just seems tired,cold and irritable. Maybe that's just me - I'm sure it's because a part of my body clock is firmly fixed on northern time: I feel we should be watching trees blossom, skies grow bluer and days grow longer.

But this is Australia - and I'm currently getting up in the dark and getting home in the dark - and I hate it! We get two weeks off in July - in between semesters - and then I'm off to the lakes to get a glimpse of some water!

 

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