I’m gasping for air here, and unfortunately, it’s not because I’ve been running miles per day. It’s the spring semester, which means I have composition classes, which means I spend most of my free time correcting. I try not to think about it, but the math is staggering. Seventy kids total, with a new paper coming in roughly every 1 1/2 weeks, and it takes me about 30 minutes to correct and comment on each one via Google Docs. Basically every 1 1/2 weeks I need to find 35 extra hours in order to correct papers. Nevermind that composition is just one of the 3 classes I teach.
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