Thoughts from Friday

Thoughts running through my head on the first Friday in March –

Why didn’t some hockey players – even though they lost – not make it to school? I have a suspicion that might be one reason they rarely make it to state. Nothing else matters. Yeah, right.

Why are freshman, well, some freshman, so foolish? They act like a bunch of fools during first lunch up here while I’m trying to conduct class. Screaming, swearing, bouncing into lockers, slamming lockers, and just plain stupidity. And you want to talk about trash. I thought about taking some pictures to document their slovenly ways. No cleaner should have to pick up after them.
Maybe there is some truth to what a former principal said, they start to become more human after Christmas break. Well, maybe we’ll aim for spring break instead.

Yesterday, I saw a student wearing the first pair of shorts of the year. It’s funny too because I just had a college comp II student write an essay on how Minnesotans go nuts from all that bleak winter weather and when the weather is even marginally nice, we go nuts and put on shorts and go without a jacket when, if that weather occurred in July, we’d all be bundled up.

These College Comp kids are voracious. I hand back their themes and dismiss the class, yet many stand at their desks reading their essays and my comments. All the time put into them (both on my part and theirs) pays off.