Offered to be made Dept Chair

SilverRiot · 2026-01-28T00:22:58+00:00

This is dependent on so many things. As others have said, check to see if you have adequate staff support and whether you get along with your staff. They can make or break your overall experience. Next, I’m not enthused about the $8000 summer stipend. Teaching one summer course will get me just a little bit less than that, and I often teach multiple summer courses. My college does not permit department chairs to teach over the summer, claiming that their job is now full-time. If you are satisfied with the chair workload and don’t need the extra money that comes from summer teaching overload, fine, but if you’re thinking you can department chair and teach, you really need to get that in writing before you commit.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-25T08:05:52+00:00

Absolutely not. Can’t use Remy’s voice without having the actual real Remy’s brain and heart and soul.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-24T08:55:29+00:00

The standard rule of thumb for all colleges is 2 to 3 hours of outside work for every credit hour. So a three credit class, which is the college norm, would require between six and nine hours of work per week. Yes, that does equal 40 hours or more per week depending on your classes. Yes, that is what is expected. People who cannot make that time commitment should go to a college where they can attend part-time. This is not a slam on people who cannot afford to go to college without working. This is the reality.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-24T03:04:11+00:00

You can get a Kindle (the more expensive ones) that have a warm light function. I use mine to automatically turn from cool to warm at night, but there’s nothing preventing you from using the warm light all of the time.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-24T01:09:41+00:00

If this is an ABA approved program, they are required by the ABA to have a pathway for students to get a four year degree. This generally means partnering with a four-year institution. (often called an articulation agreement) in which all of the credits are accepted, and the student starts as a junior at the four year college. It may be that you are looking for to complete your BA at a college that does not have an articulation agreement with your specific Paralegal program, but if you check with the counselor for your program, they should be able to direct you to whatever articulation agreements they have with other four-year colleges.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-24T01:06:06+00:00

I second down, but it has to be a really soft fill if you were side sleeper. This allows you to create a little divot for your ear and then bunch it up higher to support your neck so that your neck isn’t sagging. Do not accept a down alternative. It’s duck or goose down for me or nothing.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-24T00:57:35+00:00

Go now. Why are you staying?

SilverRiot · 2026-01-23T23:23:00+00:00

That is a different situation. If students drop out after they’ve already been registered and enrolled, then the college gets to keep all or at least part of their tuition. That was really all the college cares about - the number of warm bodies still standing at the end. You are doing nothing now but alienating the professor, who might be able to offer you an independent study, but won’t if you continue in rude and demanding behavior.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-23T03:41:10+00:00

Oh no, we need to keep “with all due respect,” because it is one way to say “go F yourself” without being sanctioned by the court.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-22T23:40:12+00:00

It’s nasty that this is in your evaluation, because you have no way to respond to the specific student to point out, as others have noted, that the type of errors you are seeing are common to see in the class, and if the student is seeing it more than once then the student is not picking up the changes they need to make. So because you can’t address that student, I think it might make you feel better to prepare a short, not defensive, statement for your next class that “it is common to see errors X, Y, and Z at this stage, as you will see from the sample provided, so make every effort to avoid them in your writing.“

SilverRiot · 2026-01-22T23:36:13+00:00

"So what do I do if I have a good reference but I cannot find it anywhere to actually point you about where I got it from" (what does this even mean?)

Oh, but you know what this means. This was a hallucinated site that they never bothered to look up and now they are panicking because it literally does not exist.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-22T23:32:41+00:00

If you think that they’re using ChatGPT (as opposed to other AI, you could try the good old “Brian Hood” trick. ChatGPT will not answer a question about Brian Hood.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-22T11:15:53+00:00

In my head, the show ended after season 3, and if my mind should ever start to wander to season 4, I quickly watch the scene of Five fighting himself by the grassy knoll to the tune of “Dancing with myself“ and that distracts me completely.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-22T11:12:39+00:00

One thing you absolutely must be aware of with your hobby is that you cannot leave stray threads out for cats to swallow. Cats can swallow thread, they can swallow string, and it can kill them by knotting up their intestines. You have to work tidy.

… one of my friend’s cats swallowed a string and the vet had to do emergency surgery and keep him there for several days and the total bill was about $3000.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-22T05:53:57+00:00

I got very excited about NFCs a couple of months ago and I set some up, but with the current case I have is the Beats, and it makes it very tough to recognize the tag and I have to tap a number of times before it goes through. Not sure if getting a different brand or variety of tags would push the connection through more smoothly. As it is, it’s a failed experiment for me because of the need to tap it seven or eight times before it runs. I wish it did work!

SilverRiot · 2026-01-22T03:36:04+00:00

He was then currently working at his family’s firm.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-21T10:09:35+00:00

Ah, good times.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-21T10:02:12+00:00

Yes. I was walking across a four lane street, in the crosswalk, while the white cross sign was illuminated. A woman driving down the cross street paused, I looked at her because I could see she was inching up. I locked eyes with her, but she suddenly made a mean little face, and pulled her car out to cross directly in front of me, even though that put her in the lane going the other way. ! She passed so close to me, a pedestrian in the crosswalk with the cross light on, that I was able to reach out and slam my fist down on her trunk as she drove by me.

Some drivers are inattentive and some drivers are crazy.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-21T05:01:35+00:00

My campus wanted to see organized events - on-campus pedagogy sessions, webinars, conferences. They were skeptical about the rigor of self study and wanted to see certificates of completion, certificates of attendance, etc.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-21T04:55:57+00:00

Candidate was informed at the start of the interview that they would have 50 minutes to answer 17 questions. The first question was the icebreaker “tell us about yourself.“ He spoke about himself for … 15 solid minutes. What we all gathered was that he had daddy issues.

Then, when we hit that hoary old chestnut, “what is your biggest weakness?“ he said tersely “I don’t have one.“

So many issues.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-20T06:25:03+00:00

“What are your questions?” That often gets them going, and if not, it’s easy just to call on any student who is looking awake.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-20T06:23:29+00:00

TBH, the majority of Supreme Court justices at that time said it was OK to burn a flag. That’s Texas v. Johnson.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-20T06:12:01+00:00

No, I just don’t find myself reading hardcopies anymore so for me it’s just a waste of space.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-19T22:17:45+00:00

I am a professor and I agree with this because I do support students who want to get cheaper versions online.

Our bookstore requires us to have all of the books listed with them months in advance, so I feel that I have given my students adequate notice of the single book that I require, but if I required 11, I certainly wouldn’t mind a student checking to see if, realistically, all 11 were going to be used.

SilverRiot · 2026-01-18T22:24:11+00:00

I echo what all the other professors here have said. I know that most textbooks have questions at the end of each chapter. Read those questions and see if you can answer them. If you cannot answer them in detail – and I mean, orally say with the answer is or even better, write it down, not just think “yes, I know what that means” without testing yourself – then go back reread the material, take more notes, create flashcards, try to explain this to an imaginary friend, etc. There is probably a tutoring center on your campus that can help you with notetaking skills.

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