elusivity

( why am i not here these days? )

If there's one thing lecturers (English) and professors (American) hate above all else it's poor attendance without excusing yourself. That is discourteous and reflects very, very badly on t'student and makes me immediately prejudiced against the slackers. I can't be bothered telling students off (they're all notionally grown up, after all, and there's a reason I'm not a teacher like badgermonkey because how does she do it? I don't do discipline.) but I do note absences and adjust my estimation accordingly. Especially ones where students do not come in later, apologise, explain and ask for any missed handouts.

I know that I missed lectures and seminars when a student and never told the lecturer but from the other side of the fence, things look different.

Actually, there is one thing I dislike more than absenteeism: people knitting in class and people answering (!!) their mobiles in class.

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Note also that I have disabled the emailing function of LJ. So if you comment please don't be offended if I don't reply for a while because I will not get your comment per email. This is because I've got a yahoo account and when it's full, it starts bouncing emails back. So, because these days I'm not looking at my email, I want to avoid over-stuffing the account. (Anyone who also has yahoo will know what I mean!)

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