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Horrible morning... please send rainbows and puppies...

isabella22isabella22
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LOL.

I feel like shiit.  I am teaching a lecture to grad students in my dept.  This is my first time teaching ANY course.  Today I had to teach a topic that I am not an expert on.  The first hour went good and then mid-way through the second hour, I had a contradiction on my slides and I got a bit confused.  So I pulled out the book and we all worked our way through it.

I feel like an idiot.  I want to cry, but instead am stuffing my face with cookies.

Other teachers... please feel free to tell me that I am a disgrace to your profession... I should really stay in my office and do research... Crying

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Re: Horrible morning... please send rainbows and puppies...

  • august0605brideaugust0605bride

    Hey! ?what do you teach?

    I am finishing my PhD (graduate in May!!!) and will teach my first grad class in the fall-- what's it like working w/ grad students??

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  • EXL311EXL311 member
    It was probably a bigger deal to you than to them.  I'm a student and we understand professors are human too.  I would much rather have a professor actually take the time to find the right answer (like you did) than to just blow it off.
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  • isabella22isabella22

    imageEXL311:
    It was probably a bigger deal to you than to them.  I'm a student and we understand professors are human too.  I would much rather have a professor actually take the time to find the right answer (like you did) than to just blow it off.

    Thank you so much!

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  • isabella22isabella22
    imageaugust0605bride:

    Hey!  what do you teach?

    I am finishing my PhD (graduate in May!!!) and will teach my first grad class in the fall-- what's it like working w/ grad students? 

    Congratulations!  What is your PhD in? 

    I love working with students, it is one of the reasons I got my PhD.  I have a couple of grad students who I supervise and I have taught a lot of research lectures, but this is my first 'class'.  The lecture was on radiation biology, I got messed up on alpha-beta ratios for tumors and normal tissues.  I hate biology, lol, I am a physicist :)

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  • august0605brideaugust0605bride

    My degree is in rhetoric-- I study the rhetoric of reproductive rights, and that's my seminar topic in the fall.

    I also love to teach-- I am directing a basic public speaking course right now, so I am working with grad students who are my TAs, but I have never taught a class for them-- just for undergrads. ?

    ?

    I am sure, as the PP suggested, they appreciated your concern for making the lecture right-- it really does show that you respect their interests as scholars. I bet they are more concerned about managing their image in front of you, you know?

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