well, that esacalated quickly
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freckles_and_doubtFun features of Registration Hell Season: three different advisors using the wrong ID to assign student reg submissions to me on the database over a five-day period, so I didn't see them and found them only by accident, hitting me with a merry 30-strong pile to process when I thought I'd cleared my queue. Considering pinpoint retributive laser strikes from orbit.
Fun additions to Registration Hell Season: orientation. I have been working 10-12 hour days for several weeks and am very tired and scattered, so discovered only today that the orientation site, which I opened to students on Wednesday, had been released with the benefit of my extremely flawed and distracted fumbling of the degree groups. These were supposed to restrict students to seeing the curriculum material for their own programme only so they don't all sign up for the wrong degrees on the wrong forms, and I managed to screw it up so they don't see any curriculum info at all. Which, aargh. They really need that time to process it before they register. Sorted now, but aargh.
Fun additions to Registration/Orientation Hell Season: a mini exam committee in the middle of it, processing all the students who wrote deferred or summer term exams; small board schedule, only 100 or so, but I have to do it over this weekend. I am tired and scattered, see above, and checking them is like pulling teeth. I have sacrificed my last chocolate orange to the cause, and am permitting myself a segment if I check ten records.
(It's a slightly weird check, too, we assessed continuously rather than with exams last year, because remote, and it's inflated the marks so the distinctions and Dean's Merit List awards are off the charts. Remote learning and COVID have been very polarising, we have simultaneously the highest fail rate and highest distinction rate we have ever had, selecting, of course, against lower income students who don't have good work conditions or internet access. Yay transformation. And the Law faculty's merit-based access to the Law major has set its admission bar nearly 10% higher than usual because of the marks inflation, and unsuccessful students are exploding furiously all over my inbox. Sigh. It's usually fatal to cross a Law-inclined student, they all fancy themselves lawyers already, and present Arguments.)
Fun additions to Registration/Orientation/Exam Committee Hell Season: still no new glasses, and I can't bloody see with these ones, I have to slide them down to the end of my nose to read the tiny board schedule writing, and they keep falling off. Very distracting.
On the upside, the weather has remained below 30 so I don't have to make blood sacrifices to the rain gods, which is just as well, I'm too tired to leap naked around a pentagram. And my flame lily is green and leafy and flowering like a mad thing. It's not all bad.
Fun additions to Registration Hell Season: orientation. I have been working 10-12 hour days for several weeks and am very tired and scattered, so discovered only today that the orientation site, which I opened to students on Wednesday, had been released with the benefit of my extremely flawed and distracted fumbling of the degree groups. These were supposed to restrict students to seeing the curriculum material for their own programme only so they don't all sign up for the wrong degrees on the wrong forms, and I managed to screw it up so they don't see any curriculum info at all. Which, aargh. They really need that time to process it before they register. Sorted now, but aargh.
Fun additions to Registration/Orientation Hell Season: a mini exam committee in the middle of it, processing all the students who wrote deferred or summer term exams; small board schedule, only 100 or so, but I have to do it over this weekend. I am tired and scattered, see above, and checking them is like pulling teeth. I have sacrificed my last chocolate orange to the cause, and am permitting myself a segment if I check ten records.
(It's a slightly weird check, too, we assessed continuously rather than with exams last year, because remote, and it's inflated the marks so the distinctions and Dean's Merit List awards are off the charts. Remote learning and COVID have been very polarising, we have simultaneously the highest fail rate and highest distinction rate we have ever had, selecting, of course, against lower income students who don't have good work conditions or internet access. Yay transformation. And the Law faculty's merit-based access to the Law major has set its admission bar nearly 10% higher than usual because of the marks inflation, and unsuccessful students are exploding furiously all over my inbox. Sigh. It's usually fatal to cross a Law-inclined student, they all fancy themselves lawyers already, and present Arguments.)
Fun additions to Registration/Orientation/Exam Committee Hell Season: still no new glasses, and I can't bloody see with these ones, I have to slide them down to the end of my nose to read the tiny board schedule writing, and they keep falling off. Very distracting.
On the upside, the weather has remained below 30 so I don't have to make blood sacrifices to the rain gods, which is just as well, I'm too tired to leap naked around a pentagram. And my flame lily is green and leafy and flowering like a mad thing. It's not all bad.
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Date: Sunday, 30 January 2022 04:49 pm (UTC)needs to be on a t-shirt
or cross stitched onto a cushion
-T