college students sometimes make me want to scream.
God, I know exactly what you mean. I actually had a pretty bad undergrad experience for that reason.
I always thought I'd retire my Wild Life Of Authorly Disrepute as a professor, but I thought it would be when I was old enough to shake my cane at all the ...well, mostly it's the arrogance that drives me buggy!
My mom is a teacher too, at high school. I've thought about doing that too, but the main thing is, I want to be a writer in my free time, whatever I do, and teaching grade school is exhausting. I'm afraid I wouldn't have the energy to create original fiction if I taught that, whereas if you're a prof you can have a much more lenient schedule.
Middle school is the most strenuous! That is going to be such a challenge, but so rewarding too. I know exactly what you mean about the moment kids figure something out. My mom teaches art, and it's at...a kind of low income, underprivileged school, and when the kids realize that they can DO this, create beautiful things--sometimes it can change their whole lives, and I've seen it happen. It's so wonderful. I'm glad you want to do something like that!
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God, I know exactly what you mean. I actually had a pretty bad undergrad experience for that reason.
I always thought I'd retire my Wild Life Of Authorly Disrepute as a professor, but I thought it would be when I was old enough to shake my cane at all the ...well, mostly it's the arrogance that drives me buggy!
My mom is a teacher too, at high school. I've thought about doing that too, but the main thing is, I want to be a writer in my free time, whatever I do, and teaching grade school is exhausting. I'm afraid I wouldn't have the energy to create original fiction if I taught that, whereas if you're a prof you can have a much more lenient schedule.
Middle school is the most strenuous! That is going to be such a challenge, but so rewarding too. I know exactly what you mean about the moment kids figure something out. My mom teaches art, and it's at...a kind of low income, underprivileged school, and when the kids realize that they can DO this, create beautiful things--sometimes it can change their whole lives, and I've seen it happen. It's so wonderful. I'm glad you want to do something like that!