College Life
Hello everyone: Okay, you are at the end of your rope. You have almost made it through the semester but it is just so hard to finish things up. Surely missing a couple of small assignments won’t make a difference, right? Wrong. I have a former student who decided to let her guard down at the very end of her time in my class. She...
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College Life
Hi everyone: This is the time of the semester when many people just give up. I had a student recently who decided not to do the last two assignments. Then she realized that, by not doing them, she had flunked the class. She came back to me and asked if she could complete them because flunking the class meant she would not graduate and the...
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College Life
Hello everyone: Sometimes my students get tired before the end of the term. It can happen to anyone…..it happens to instructors when we have bitten off more than we can grade. Hang in there, people. There will come a day when you totally forget whatever is plaguing you now. If you quit, you may never remember why. Don’t give up. Okay, so you had a...
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College Life
Hello everyone: If you are like my schools, the end of the semester is coming up very fast. How do you get through it? Some students drink a ton of caffeine, but this is not really the way to handle the stress of term’s end. One of my favorite students came into class the other day; she was so hyped up on caffeine that I...
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College Life
Hello everyone: For those of you in college, you are heading into the home stretch- the end of the semester. This is not the time to let your guard down. I have had students who were very, very close to the next highest letter grade, yet who chose to skip the last few days of class. What does this say to the professor? It tells...
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College Life / Suddenly Single
Hello everyone: As my own teaching winds down for the semester, it seemed good to share with you how to finish your courses strong. First, do the work! Do not make excuses; you have no where to go but with an “incomplete” and teachers don’t like the thought of having one student to check on over the holidays. Get your assignments done and turned in...
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