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When a student starts explaining why their paper isn’t finished.

Actual footage of an adjunct signing her contract.

0:0-0:09 = Students when it’s Thanksgiving break.

0:10-2:01 = Adjuncts when it’s Thanksgiving break.

When students ask what their grade is.

Me when I advise a student that their paper topic might not work out, but they tell me they’re going to do it anyways.

Every time you count how many essays you still have left to grade.

Every single time someone asks, “How are you?” during fall semester, I’m like:

But I just say:

When one of your students emails you asking if you can show her again how to use punctuation and sentence structure to create emphasis.

The sound an adjunct makes when rushing from one college to the next.

Checking your email/returning to grading after your first day off in over a month.

Overhearing your tenured office neighbors complain about how classes taught by adjuncts are just running on autopilot.

Each time someone refers to adjuncting as “getting a foot in the door.”

All the tenured people when I walk past their offices.

At the “mandatory” new employee benefit orientation, when HR realizes you’re an adjunct. They’re like:

At convocation when they announce new staff and faculty and you’re new, but you’re neither staff nor faculty.

Being an adjunct at new faculty orientation.

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