#adjunct problems

[englishmajorhumor]

College Freshman Annoyed About Having To Room With 47-Year-Old Adjunct Professor

AUGUSTA, ME—Expressing frustration with his roommate’s apparent lack of hygiene and off-putting habits, college freshman Kyle Hayes told reporters Tuesday that he was annoyed about having to room with Isaac Feldman, a 47-year-old adjunct professor at the University of Maine. “He’s always hitting me up for money and meal swipes, but my plan doesn’t really cover that,” said Hayes, adding that his roommate also tended to do these “weird exercises” in their living area to help with the back problem he developed in his early 40s.

[lyledebeast]

It took a week for me to make an appointment to sign paperwork.  I still have to drive 45 miles, both ways, to sign it.  It doesn’t take a week to plan a semester’s worth of teaching!

[sailorsoftgirl]

Grading papers like...

[sailorsoftgirl]

Rewarding myself with 10 minutes of screwing around online for every two term papers I grade. Do what you got to do, right? I’m so close to being done, but my brain feels like a melted marshmallow.

[dear-college-students]

Dear Universities:

I get that you don’t generally give a shit about your adjuncts, but do you know how much grading I could complete in the 45 minutes it takes the fucking computer in the adjunct office to start up?

Because it’s a lot.

[grownupgeekgirl]

Waiting to see if both my classes for the upcoming term will run. One will, the other is a little under, but they haven’t cancelled it yet and term starts Monday. The downside of it not running are I won’t get the almost-reasonable paycheck that 2 classes provide, and I’m on the schedule for 4 classes in the fall semester, and 2 simultaneous summer classes is a good dry run for the physical, mental, and emotional workload I’ll have then. The upside is that I don’t have to get up at 5 am 2 days a week. Yeah. I’d rather the ass-early class run.

[eirenical]

I have officially been asked back to teach at my university for the fall with the additional possibility of picking up more than one section in the spring.

*cheers*

SO relieved.

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