By Erik Hanson My typical weekday begins before 5 a.m., which I’m sure is unthinkable to some, and all too familiar to others. The main reason is because of the class load I took on this semester, combined with how far I have to travel...
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By Erik Hanson As a student, I had what could be best described as a strained relationship with online instructional software. As an instructor, that relationship still exists, but I’m.
By Erik Hanson The last Sunday before classes resume, and I could be found going over my schedules and rosters, taking a last-minute look at the syllabi, and shuffling necessary.
By Erik Hanson It's the Monday morning after Finals and all my grades are tallied, waiting to be posted by college officials. I'm caught between rummaging through my files for something to do (there has got to be something to do because there's always something...
By Erik Hanson Way back in my first post "Confessions of a Phobic (or Better Yet, a Realist)," I mentioned that I teach composition, a subject wholly unrelated to the major.
By P.D. Lesko I'm starting to get jealous of AdjunctNation.com's Juggling 101 blogger Kat Kiefer-Newman. Her blog posts are shared and shared and shared on Facebook with a regularity that.
It's the Fall, and that is just about the only time I ever miss teaching college. I loved teaching, and every September I would tweak my materials and welcome however many students were brave enough to stay in my classes. I didn't deliberately try to...
By Erik Hanson I had thought to title this entry as “Don’t Make Me Angry; You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry,” but that phrase probably has a little too.
By Erik Hanson The title of this post reminds me of Jon Lovitz’s “The Annoying Man” character from back in his Saturday Night Live days who would yell out, “Get.
By Erik Hanson I am sometimes plagued by an irrational fear for my job. Perhaps an explanation through analogy is in order. I grew up on a farm almost ten miles north of my hometown. During that time, I'd sometimes find myself plunked down on...
