Today on November 20th, another case of the "Boredom Headache" has caused more students to go home sick. One such victim, Ross Saur, who after a brief interview, said that the office allegedly didn't have any tylenol for him. I smell conspiracy, for I have noticed that lectures, note taking, quizzes, tests, and projects are getting way more boring than they used to be. Thus, boredom.... being the terrible germ that it is is causing multiple of these cases, and teachers love to spread, (Is Dave Hamilton suffering from this too?), the question is, why? It is easy to speculate that most of the faculty want a day to themselves, so why not just spend a week on vacation while your workplace gets quarantined? It's fool proof, poison students with boredom, add malnutrition (see previous note), and take away any medication to combat it and what do you get? Right, a different version of the Hope college deal, a school shut down for a week. Let's be honest though, who doesn't need a break once in a while? but breaks suck if you are experiencing boredom- caused headaches, which leads to dementia, and dementia leads to an early demise. News flash, killing students is illegal and also, with no students, there are no teaching jobs. So, once we are all dead... good luck finding new jobs (As if it wasn't hard enough in Michigan, it is only going to get harder with the continued poor leadership of Gov. Granholm and who could forget our soon to be president, Barry Dunham. aka Barrack Obama.)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
There is a new epidemic, proceed with caution....
Today on November 20th, another case of the "Boredom Headache" has caused more students to go home sick. One such victim, Ross Saur, who after a brief interview, said that the office allegedly didn't have any tylenol for him. I smell conspiracy, for I have noticed that lectures, note taking, quizzes, tests, and projects are getting way more boring than they used to be. Thus, boredom.... being the terrible germ that it is is causing multiple of these cases, and teachers love to spread, (Is Dave Hamilton suffering from this too?), the question is, why? It is easy to speculate that most of the faculty want a day to themselves, so why not just spend a week on vacation while your workplace gets quarantined? It's fool proof, poison students with boredom, add malnutrition (see previous note), and take away any medication to combat it and what do you get? Right, a different version of the Hope college deal, a school shut down for a week. Let's be honest though, who doesn't need a break once in a while? but breaks suck if you are experiencing boredom- caused headaches, which leads to dementia, and dementia leads to an early demise. News flash, killing students is illegal and also, with no students, there are no teaching jobs. So, once we are all dead... good luck finding new jobs (As if it wasn't hard enough in Michigan, it is only going to get harder with the continued poor leadership of Gov. Granholm and who could forget our soon to be president, Barry Dunham. aka Barrack Obama.)
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Well put, Alex.
And the smell of conspiracy seems to be coming from Mr. Anderson's room....
Thanks, But i have to accredit this post to mike wiersma
I hate to say this, but college is boring too. . . and then actually working is kinda boring. So, I guess you could say they are preparing you for boredom. In fact, that's probably in their mission statement! HA! But, I do agree, many teachers slip in to this "dry, stale" mode of teaching. It's a shame, because teaching could be so much fun. Sharing knowledge should be exciting. The problem is that most teachers are so wrapped up in the subject; they concern themselves with just reaching their goal of dissemination information. How wrong this is; it should be more about the relationship with the students. Showing respect and concern for your students in addition to a passion for the subject being taught and not just reading from a text book. These are possible factors to not boring your students to death!
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