I’ve done it!
Last day of classes!
I don’t have too much to say about it, actually, other than both Friday sections went really much better than I was anticipating. The reviews went over well, and hopefully they know what to study up on and will do well on the final. I had one group tell me that they learned more from section than from lecture, so that made me feel really nice. My section section was more full than usual, and I got a couple good nods of confidence there too. One girl brought me fudge and cookies she had made, and another student emailed me after class to thank me for being their TA. It’s a lot more than I had even hoped the kids would say, so I’m really curious how the reviews are going to come back. I do hope they have suggestions for stuff I could do better, since I don’t feel like I really nailed this TA thing right off the bat, but I do at least feel like they’re not going to be awful marks.
Watched “The Meaning of Life” this evening and had tasty soup I had put in the slow cooker and chilled out. I was pretty pooped by the time I got home, and really needed the cathartic not-doing-anything evening I took. It’s been great knowing there’s nothing more pressing this weekend than my own work, and even more so that the *only* work I have to do this weekend is to write one of my essays. It’s crazy that a 15 page essay seems like a break, but given that I’ve been working all quarter getting the research done for it, preparing presentations on it, and doing background research for it… it’s really just like frosting a cake at this point. I know what to say, and how to structure it, and I just need to make it sound nice. Phew! Not that it’s not going to be a fair amount of work.. but it’s so nice to be doing all this work for myself, for my own benefit.
And with that in mind, it’s time to go to bed before it gets too late. I want to get up and get crackin’ tomorrow, so I can start putting away this stuff and moving ever closer towards doneness! And a real, work-free vacation!!