Even though this isn't my first time around, I still feel a little flutter as classes rapidly approach. A colleague once confessed to me that he was so nervous his first day teaching that he threw up.
Um. Yeah.
I'm not that bad. I'm not even sure that I'm nervous any more. Maybe excited?
No, probably the best word to describe my feelings about the start of this semester is apprehensive.
So. Anyone else out there want to admit to blowing chunks pre-lecture?
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While I've never actually called dinosaurs before starting a new semester, I always feel like it. My main goal the first day of class is to not throw up on the students. How bad would their class evaluations be if I did?
My anxiety is directly related to the size of the class. Fifty students, no problem. Seventy-five students, still fine. 125 students and the butterflies appear moments before I start talking. 225 students in a HUGE lecture hall and it's all I can do to drag myself through the doors that first day.
As an undergrad at a PUI, my research adviser (who was also head of the department) told me that he was always a little nervous before any class he taught--and he had been teaching for over 20 years. He said if there ever came a day when he wasn't nervous, then he would know that he didn't care enough.
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