Time for available parking to shrink, cafeteria lines to grow, and my free time to evaporate.
It's also time for classroom-related dreams. And nightmares.
I've had academic-related dreams before. When I first started my visiting ass. job, I had the same dream, every night, for weeks on end:
In my dream, I'm in a very large lecture class. One of those huge bowl-shaped lecture halls that can seat hundreds of students. The problem is, I've been skipping class. I've missed the midterm, not turned in papers, and I heard a rumor that the final was this morning. By the time I showed up, grades were already turned in, and there is no recovering my failing grade.
After the first year, my academic dreams switched from me being the unprepared student to me being the unprepared professor. The dreams only start around the first week of August and end after the first couple of classes. I wonder how my school dreams will change over the course of my career. Will they eventually go away completely?
Do you have a recurring dream around the start of the academic year?
