The #Buddha said we should treat praise & condemnation with #equanimity, as winds that blow first this way, then that--neither permanent, neither self. I am in danger of being dropped because my #DWFI rates are so abysmal--my Ws are killing me--& have been orienting my mind & my life toward no longer #teaching after this next term. Then I open my email this morning & find I've been nominated by a couple of my students for a teaching award.

#Adjunct life.

#anicca #dukkha #anatta

The #Buddha said we should treat praise & condemnation with #equanimity, as winds that blow first this way, then that--neither permanent, neither self. I am in danger of being dropped because my #DWFI rates are so abysmal--my Ws are killing me--& have been orienting my mind & my life toward no longer #teaching after this next term. Then I open my email this morning & find I've been nominated by a couple of my students for a teaching award.

#Adjunct life.

#anicca #dukkha #anatta

#DWFI rates suck to measure effectiveness. People fail or withdraw for all sorts of reasons out of my control--and sometimes out of theirs. An I, repaired, is a success IMHO. Some Ws would be N/As if they left it alone, but they withdraw themselves. One F asked me in November where to find the lectures (we're online asynchronous). Two people withdrew after they got caught cheating.

I ask students to check in, do the work but no dice.

You can lead a horse to water but.

#AcademicChatter

#DWFI rates suck to measure effectiveness. People fail or withdraw for all sorts of reasons out of my control--and sometimes out of theirs. An I, repaired, is a success IMHO. Some Ws would be N/As if they left it alone, but they withdraw themselves. One F asked me in November where to find the lectures (we're online asynchronous). Two people withdrew after they got caught cheating.

I ask students to check in, do the work but no dice.

You can lead a horse to water but.

#AcademicChatter