Tomorrow begins my fifth consecutive semester of taking classes. Fortunately for me, I'll have only one class this semester (as opposed to the two I've taken for the past three semesters), and it'll be online. So no more late night slogs back home from campus!
The instructor for this semester's course has already given us an assignment to complete by the start of the semester. I'm going to be deliberately vague about details about the class (you know, in case the instructor reaches the end of the internet, finds my blog, and makes the connection between it and me). But...this assignment was all about her, not at all about the subject matter. I'm serious. We had to look for answers to questions like where she went to school, titles and synopses of her thesis and dissertation, where she works now, and her research interests. I'm very protective of my free time, and this seemed like a massive waste of it, particularly before the semester even began.
So, was there a pedagogical purpose to this assignment that I'm either too dense or too cranky to understand? Or--as I fear--does this indicate that I'll spend the semester trying to manage a professorial ego trip? I'm sure I'll find out soon.
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