The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[unknown]

Well today sucks. My grandmother passed away overnight due to her battle with cancer. 92 years old. Not many people can say they've lived that long.

R.I.P. Rosa

That's a bummer. Grandmas are the best people. Condolences

 

[The Butt]

Yeah sorry for your loss @Systematic Riffage. :/

 

[unknown]

Yeah, I never realised how big of a barrier to learning coming from a bad home is until I became a teacher. There are students where just getting them to come to college in is a big enough challenge, any learning they actually do is a bonus.. They don't have great role models to know how to behave when they are in an educational environment and when you are unable to effectively communicate with their parents because they simply don't care, then it becomes very difficult to change the inappropriate behaviour. A lot of the learners where I'm at simply lack the motivation because their parents don't have any qualifications either.

At the same time though, my mother swears all the time (like literally every other word) and has done infront of me all my life, and often makes flippant and offensive comments. However, I knew that this behaviour simply wasn't acceptable in a teaching and learning environment. Many of the learners I teach apparently don't.

Sort of in the same boat, regarding the first paragraph. Two of the community colleges I work at are in traditionally underserved areas (one has had two shootings in the neighborhood in the last week). Getting the students to come is certainly one thing, and when they do take their placement tests, because they did so poorly in high school, they're placed in remedial classes. One of the classes I teach at LBCC is English 801a. That's three levels below Freshman Composition. So if you start there, you have four semesters of English just to get an AA, five (Advanced Comp) if you want to transfer. The math situation isn't much better.

20% of students who start in English 801a actually complete the sequence. They drop out because they figure it's not worth their time, money, or life just happens. Jobs get offered or lost. Family members die. Shit happens. Persistence (semester-to-semester enrollment) and eliminating exit points (like condensing the sequence to three classes rather than four) are the name of the game now. That's all I hear talked about in our meetings

I have students who have never read a book. I have students who went all four years of high school without writing a single essay. It's easy to get overwhelmed, but if you love the work (which I do), it can be very rewarding

 

[SweptbackFlame]

That's awful! My thoughts go out to you and your family. I'm sure she will be missed lots, but will be in a happy place now. All the best for you and your family!

That's a bummer. Grandmas are the best people. Condolences

Yeah sorry for your loss @Systematic Riffage. :/

Thank you guys, Means alot.

And yeah she was an exceptional human being, such a caring person. She was tough, 2 years ago you wouldn't of thought she was 90 years old. She was getting up and walking through the apartment like 15 times over just to get some exercise. Damn cancer.

 

[Omni]

i just ate some spicy fried eggs and now I'm relaxing with my dog. I'm drinking some Grapefruit Sculpin while watching Chopped.

 

[Burzum_Maiden]

Thank you guys, Means alot.

And yeah she was an exceptional human being, such a caring person. She was tough, 2 years ago you wouldn't of thought she was 90 years old. She was getting up and walking through the apartment like 15 times over just to get some exercise. Damn cancer.

That really is a shame, but we all have to go at some point. It's impossible not to grieve for a while, but celebrate the life she had too! From what you've said, it sounded like she a great life. Take your time, but I'm sure she would rather you celebrated her life than sunk into a hole of misery.

 

[Phylactery]

@Phylactery oh you teach college? I feel by then students should have their act together but it doesn't surprise me that many don't especially if they are freshmen.

I definitely understand. I think at a certain point there's so much you can blame the parent for. When you become old enough to see that your parent does not always do the right thing or make the right choices you should deviate from whatever behaviors you see them doing that wouldn't help you. Or you should know to.

But yes many things surprise me. My mom is from Jamaica and the standard of being "professional" is super high. There's even a Jamaican motto "kids are to be seen and not heard." Ive never had a behavioral issue at school. Here it's just like anything goes n these kids can't follow directions or rules. my principal is trying to push teachers to plan trips but I'm not taking any kid out of that building if they can't follow directions and don't listen.

Yeah I teach at a college, but it's in the UK so it's probably completely different to what it is in the US. I mainly teach 16-19 year olds (high school finishes at 16 here). Since the past 2-3 years it is compulsory for everyone to continue in education up to 18/19 now. It is also compulsory for them to continue maths and English education past 16 if they didn't achieve a C on the GCSE exam no matter what their main course at college is. This means that I am teaching functional skills and GCSE maths to students that have sat it multiple times in the past and failed. They thought when they came to college they would escape both maths and English so motivation is very low as you can imagine. This isn't what college was in the past, at least not when I went. You didn't have to go, which meant generally the people who did go wanted to be there and they were also generally people who had achieved good grades at school and went to college to study what we call 'A' - levels.

 

[Satanstoenail]

I'm currently trying to work after staying up until about 2am last night and getting hell drunk and then sleeping in so late this morning that I didn't have time for breakfast. And it's Saturday so most cafes are shut so I have yet to consume any food or coffee and it's after midday. I feel like I'm in a strange dream of some kind and weird unexplainable shit keeps happening on the jobs I'm doing. Conversation with customers is awkward. I need to go home.

 

[The Butt]

So tonight was the only night me and my father were able to spend time for the next three weeks and he passed out drunk because I got carried away pressuring him to slam drinks. I feel really bad and it sucks.

 

[Onder]

I'm kinda horny today. I'd like to squeeze some butt. I'd like to get my dick sucked. I keep seeing these women at work and they're in their thirties and I would like to grab their butt and fuck. I would like to fuck them. Or I would like to get my dick sucked by some girl I know, I doesn't matter which one, and I would like to fuck her in the butt too. Just to let off some steam. Like semen. On some girl's face. Or in her butt. I would like to see some girl naked and then fuck her.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Won $600 yesterday! My dad won $1000. It was a good day at a new casino followed by a good day on the disc course followed by a good night watching crazy car shit on YouTube with my dude.

Overall goodness. And a horror convention tomorrow. Today I clean like a gay adult.

 

[Onder]

I'm still horny and I will masturbate my penis.

 

[Funerary_Doom]

Ahh @Phylactery it is different. That age range here in the states is usually still high school. That is tough. Especially since your teaching a level that students weren't successful in. Some colleges here (depending on your major as well) offers the option of not taking a math course, but I do think there's some weird math phobia that develops after middle school, and it is important to be able to do some math.


I totally understand. Definitely hard to teach kids who have many things going on in their lives and aren't as confident in themselves and their abilities. It is rewarding for you though if they are able to get the material after you taught them.

Anyways I'm lying down. My cousin came from Boston to visit. Yesterday's woke up at 330 am to get work done before work n stayed at work until 9pm to fix my room and bulletin board. Now i have a week off so I'm feeling lazy but accomplished that I finished my board on time.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Christ, you work way too much for the bullshit that you have to deal with.

 

[Onder]

I'm at work and I have a boner.

 

[Burzum_Maiden]

I'm at work and I have a boner.

Noice.

 

[Onder]

Have I talked about my future prediction about female makeup looking like cumshots? Basically I think that females will finally realize what looks the best of them and that it's a nice fucking load of semen and they will fake it with their make up and they will wear this gunge on their faces and it will stay there all day just like a regular make up. I hope I will still be alive when this new trend becomes real.

Eventually women will start taking selfies with actual loads on their faces because it's the real thing.

 

[Burzum_Maiden]

Fair enough. People can dream, and that may become reality.

 

[Onder]

Fair enough. People can dream, and that may become reality.

Who are you, are you new or something?

 

[Burzum_Maiden]

Yea, why? Is that illegal?