#finally seeing the end of the semester

[woolying]

posting wip so i have the motivation to finish it eventually...surely i dont give up....

monitoring feat vero

[ra-vio]

I got my one mermay artwork in this year

[thedrotter]

average minecraft gameplay of elementary school kids (+the og doodle of it I did like. months ago)

[love-songs-for-emma]

being home on a weekday & living with ur mom will have u talking to the cats like "hey. hows it goin. u guys uhh freeloaders too ?"

[zakiyah]

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[auremberite]

in the span of 2 months, april to june 2025, i completed my capstone comic after hundreds of hours of work, badly reinjured my torn ACL, went through finals, pinched a nerve in my neck from using crutches which took out my drawing arm for 4 weeks, graduated college, and will get top surgery in june. self portrait, howling. ,may 18 2025.

[couldthatreallyhavebeenit]

past couple weeks have been wild but hey! i just looked at my grades for the semester and all the ones i have are over 90% sooooo

[novadorks]

finally finished orv after two years . . . what do i do with my life now

[r3dblccd]

When I was joking that I'm waking up from my grave and emerging from my cave I meant it

[orcelito]

Actually it is SO weird to me to remember that I was an engineering student and that later on I had been pursuing a minor in statistics

I may be a IT & com person in the end, but I do have the foundations of engineering and statistics in my brain too. Wild !

[collecting--stardust]

Can't fucking believe that I just spend hours researching about palliative care and lung cancer for a fic when I don't even do it when I'm learning about it last semester 💀

[mx-menace]

going from having a SHITTON of stuff to do, to having nothing to do, is an incredibly strange experience

[schrodingers-hoarding-problem]

learned that i was the curve for my bio class that just ended so im feeling on top of the world

[yellowsubiesdance]

i can’t simply have a break, i need to be going to school, working, AND finding time to do chores in the house

[dont-open-dead-inside-net]

Deep in my soul I do not want to write that essay

[ms-demeanor]

Sometimes college professors like to hop on my posts lamenting the sorry state of syllabi these days and joke about how they haven't thought that far ahead in the course themselves, or talk about how they struggle to complete a schedule for their students.

With all due respect, that's your job. If you can't do your job, you should have a different job. If you need help, ask your colleagues or your department chair or *someone* because I know that professors aren't given a hell of a lot of education on how to educate, so you probably *need* help.

But every single time I make one of those posts I get anywhere from ten to thirty messages, replies, reblogs, and asks say "oh man, that's exactly why I had to drop out of school; I couldn't keep up with the assignments because I didn't know when they were due until the week they were due."

I have been a college student in three separate decades, and "not having a schedule of assignments in the syllabus" is new to my experience. That shit didn't fly in the 2000s or 2010s and I think it likely has to do with professors being overly reliant on apps.

AT A MINIMUM your syllabus should have:

Contact information (including preferred method of contact) for the professor

Office Hours

Grading Policy

Assignment schedule.

Your assignment schedule doesn't necessarily need to have the exact page numbers of every reading or a full assignment sheet for each project, but it should have things like:

December 1st - Major Project 3 second draft due December 9th - Quiz 10 December 12th - Major Project 3 final draft due December 15th - Final Exam

If you end up presenting a more thorough schedule with readings and homework later, that is acceptable to present a week or two into the semester but it is absolutely insane to me that students these days don't know what homework they're going to have to get done over Thanksgiving break during the first couple weeks of class.

If I had three professors at once who didn't give me a schedule, how on earth would I know if I was going to have to read three chapters of a novel, take a midterm and turn in two stats homework assignments, and complete a history research paper the same week that I'm planning to travel to see family? If I'm aware of this from the beginning of the semester I can make sure not to pick up extra shifts, or I can plan to leave a day later to accommodate the midterm, or I can start working on the paper early to complete it before the due date but if I don't know what's going to be due when, I'm going to have a big problem.

If you don't give your students a schedule you are communicating that you don't care about their schedule, and that you think it's their responsibility to contort their life (and their job, and their other classes) around your class, and honestly my advice to students in that situation is "drop in the first week and pick up another class". That's actually part of why I recommend signing up for one more class than you can really manage - if you get a professor whose class looks like it's going to be a disaster because they don't have a schedule, you can bail before the withdrawal period and get a refund for the class.

I'm only in one class this semester but the professor's response has fully dropped me into "Fuck it, I guess I'll fail" mode and I don't even know if I can pull myself out of my current D grade because I don't know how many assignments we have left in the semester.

This is a shitty way to run a class. If you can't do better than this, you shouldn't be running a class.