If your teaching experience is like my wife's then monotony and stress describe your daily life right now. I'm pretty sure she's working over 80 hours a week.
Newton invented calculus during a plague because Zoom didn't exist then.
Trapped in Zoom, endlessly uploading videos for students, feeling dread and urgency? You're just describing my actual waking life.
reminds me of nightmares I've had about grading.
reminds me of nightmares I've had about grading.
reminds me of nightmares I've had about grading.
reminds me of nightmares I've had about grading.
"I was doing so much grading, that I dreamed I was a letter grade. And the worst part of all was that I was only a C"
I believe this to be on topic in spirit: Somebody should have told me to watch Office Space. It's pretty good.
Last millennium angst seems trivial and performative.
Now you know what to do if you ever get a million dollars.
Everybody is always speaking poorly about arson, but it solves some problems.
I guess lots of movies have that message.
Last millennium angst seems trivial and performative.
It does a bit. When Peter Gibbons says, with loathing, "What do we do if we're still working at Initech in twenty years' time?" and Samir replies entirely seriously "It would be nice to have that kind of job security".