#college knowledge

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College Knowledge

I have this assignment to give a description of all these different bones that are labeled in a chart. I take a look at the thing and smile. I remember the forensic science class I took at a different school to do medical coding at this one. Best class I ever taken ever. Seen lots of gross stuff and furthered my knowledge on the human body.

I emailed all my students Tuesday telling them not to worry about “Simple Task.” Instead, I would bring in a deck of cards and they would then produce a brief impromptu speech based on the cards they selected. This would be part of my activity, but I was still missing lecture content. Not only that, I also had to continue/wrap up the Tina Fey reading, and introduce “My Pro Tips for Collegiate Success” all of which were in my PowerPoint for the first day, which was in my flash drive. Assuming that it was somewhere in my belongings I left that task for later.

Later arrived, and I went searching for my flash drive only to realize it was missing. My search in all the usual placed proved fruitless and I was worried because, well, that thing has a lot of my old school work and other documents that I need. So I reached out to some folks I was with and asked if I had left it with them. I didn’t. There was nothing I could do except wait for today and look on campus…

Much to my dismay I woke up later than I would have liked. This kind of set me back in a general sense. Morning traffic is generally not cool, today was no exception. Knowing that I had woken up late and left my house a little later than I would have liked; I tried taking an alternative route. This didn’t really help, as it took me virtually the same amount of time to reach my destination.

My first class starts at 8:00am, and I was still a few minutes away from campus at 7:50am. Not only that, but I still had to find parking, which is notoriously nefarious at SDSU. Fortunately, I have Faculty Parking, and I remembered there’s a small lot near my first class. Parking was swift, and then I walked briskly to class because it was starting in about 5 minutes. My main presentation was MIA because I was sans flash drive. So, upon getting to class I essentially wanted to start the activity. But, since I arrived a little early [about 3min], I asked my students if we should start to which they said no. So, I just waited for the clock to strike 8:00am.

Once that happened, I asked if they had gotten my email, to which they said yes. I then proceeded to explain the activity: I’ve brought a deck of cards with me, you will select any given two, you will read them and tell us a brief story or speech about the cards that you’ve selected. Everyone was a little confused, because they thought it was a “normal” deck of cards. Then I pulled out the black box that has Cards Against Humanity and I just heard a mixture of gasps, and chuckles. I did this for all my classes, and they all seemed to have enjoyed it.

Towards the end of class I provided a brief breakdown of their first speech, told them next week would be a rather dry topic: APA style, and asked them to look over the links I provided for that topic. I also offered everyone their first shot at an extra credit opportunity: reread/finish reading the Bossypants excerpt and do a brief write up on why they think it’s important/how it pertains to class. I should probably upload it on Blackboard sometime soon…

That is all for today. Class Dismissed. 

PS I found my flash drive in my last classroom, I left it on the podium and it was waiting for me. It was an exciting moment when I found it. Will probably do “My Pro Tips” sometime in the near future, we’ll see.