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January
03: Starting The Year With Something Completely Different
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04: Dealing with Someone Too Mature, Part II
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05: She Got What She Deserved A Long Time Ago
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07: The School Getting Fed Up with Someone
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08: More Unacceptable Behavior
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09: Those Attempting to Get By with Minimum Effort
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10: Two Eyes, Two Angles of Looking At Something
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11: Ninja Skills Used For Lazy Purposes
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14: Belated New Year's Resolution
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15: May It Serve As An Scary Example to Others
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16: Time for Slide Projections?
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17: Bad Habits Being Passed On to the Students
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18: Another Squeaky Wheel
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21: Personally, Though, I Like David Letterman
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22: Academic/Technical: Leading Both Newbies and Veterans
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23: Academic: Boss Putting His Foot Down
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24: Personal: Don't Like Cliffhangers Such As These
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25: Personal: Admitting to Flaws In My Own Principle
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26: Academic: A "Major Victory" for a Major Slacker
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28: Personal: Quinquennial or Wood
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29: Academic/Technical: Accessing An Attila/Adolf Analogy
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30: Personal/Academic: More Mileage
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31: Technical: Vulnerabilities, Emotional and Otherwise
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February
01: Academic: Possible Strategies in Maximizing Student Output
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02: Personal/Academic: Greed, Besides the Vocation, Unites Us
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04: Academic: Soft Threats For the Students to Work
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05: Academic: More Than A Fair Shot at Passing My Subjects
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06: Academic: The Daily "Deal or No Deal" In Students' Lives
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07: Academic/Personal: Compulsary Recreation
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08: Academic/Technical: Mixing Basic and Advanced Topics in Class
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09: Personal: No Theme, Just Wandering
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12: Academic: Conflicts of Vision in Several Levels
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13: Academic/Personal: No More Looking Forward
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14: Academic/Technical: An Unexpected Conclusion
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15: Academic: An Unreal Answer to A Real Question
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16: Academic: A Softer Leash
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18: Academic: Bad Reflections on the School
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19: Academic: Spoiled In All Senses
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20: Academic/Personal: Getting Closer to the Bottom of the Mystery Even Without Communicating with the Person Concerned
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21: Academic: Every Term There's Always One
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22: Academic/Personal: Preventing the Peter Principle
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23: Academic: Students Who Ironically Want More Paperwork
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26: Academic: Dedication Shows In the Little Things
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27: Personal/Academic: As An Observer
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28: Academic/Personal: A Teacher's Trained Eye for Evaluation
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29: Personal: Cutting Open Socialization
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March
01: Academic/Personal: More Talk Before One Action
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03: Technical/Academic: A Teacher Who's Not Unbudgable
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04: Academic/Personal: One Small Information Gathering Step At A Time
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05: Academic/Personal: The Whole Picture, So Far
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06: Academic/Personal: The More Things Stay the Same
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07: Academic/Personal: Assumed Promises Beyond Presence
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08: Academic/Personal: More Pleas, Less Performance
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10: Academic/Personal: Not Messing with the Status Quo
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11: Personal: Objectivity Aside
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12: Academic/Personal: Not The End of That Story
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13: Academic/Personal: More Endings and Trailings
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14: Academic: A Tie that Binds or Breaks Away
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15: Academic/Technical: More Accurately Assessing Student Performance
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17: Academic/Personal: Nearly Pointy-Haired Talk
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18: Academic/Personal: So Much For Not Resisting
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19: Academic/Personal: Demanding Little Children
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24: Academic/Personal: A Student Asking A Teacher to Bend the Rules
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25: Academic/Personal: So Much For Planning Things Ahead of Time
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26: Academic/Personal: One Little Dragging Step at A Time
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27: Academic/Personal: The Dean Debacle Latest Chapter Etc.
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28: Academic/Personal: Recognition and Achievement without Pain
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29: A/P/Technical: A Teacher's Subtle Revenge
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31: A/P: Own Agendas Breached At Last
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April
01: A/P/T: Teachers Like Babies That Have to Be Enticed to Be Fed
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02: A/P: Strongly Suspicious of Strangers
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03: A: More Work for the Students, Less for the Teacher
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04: A/P: The Equivalent of A Temper Tantrum of the Part of the Faculty
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05: A: Students Expecting High Grades of Low Effort
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08: A/P: Reading Between the Whines
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09: A/P: A Person For Whom It Takes Too Much Effort to Change His Ways
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10: A/P: People Who Feel Their Life Is More Important and Should Be Prioritized By Everyone Else
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11: A/P: College Isn't Fulfilling It's Purpose of Preparation for A Career Anymore
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12: A/P: The Adminstration's Mixed Priorities Trickles Down to the Teachers and to the Students
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14: A/P: Dealing with Bosses Not As Smooth as Foreseen
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15: A/P: Teaching Lab Has to be Reinvented Once Again
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16: A/P/T: The Teacher Acts Human
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17: A/P: A Career In Not Like A Movie with a Third Act Turnaround
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18: A/P: A Select Few Who Believe They Know What's Best for the Students
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21: A/P: Ways of Stopping People Who Want to Break the Rules
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22: A/P: The Roots of the Current National Political Situation
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23: A/P: Who Gets the Right to Speak for All?
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24: A/P: Teacher's Heaven, Slacker Students' Hell
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25: A/P: Treating Students As Captive Cash Cows
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26: A/P: How to Let Go
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29: A/P: Petty Personality
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30: A/P: Times Have Changed, But Some People Have Not
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May
02: A/P: "Follow All My Commands - No Matter How Seemingly Irrelevant - And You'll Succeed"
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03: A/P: "It Worked for the Elevator Button, It Might Work With You"
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05: A/P: Term Break Economics
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06: A/P: "I'd Rather Stress How Important This Is To Me Than Appear Like A Decent Human Being"
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07: A/P: When Eccentric Students Become Teachers, They Become Eccentric Teachers
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08: A/P: Middle Man Muddles
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09: A/P: Conflicts in What Different People Want
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10: A/P: The Consequences of Not Looking Far Ahead Enough
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12: A/P: Slacker Still Not Shaping Up
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13: A/P: Lab Wise, Socially Foolish
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14: A/P: Lazy People Act Worse When They Have A Great Lack of Momentum
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15: A/P: Too Much or Too Little Are Not Enough
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16: A/P: Deny Me This Cross I Bear That You Gave to Me
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17: A/P: Physically Present, Morally Absent
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19: A/P: More New Values to Teach
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20: A/P: "Eat What I Cook, Not What I Eat"
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21: A/P: Not Standing on the Shoulders of Even Ordinary Men
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22: A/P: Trimming Down What the Students Want
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23: A/P: So One Track Minded, Some People Are
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24: A/P: Neck Deep in New Work
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26: T: Going Back to the Very Basics
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27: A/P/Extra-curricular: Happenings When I Was At the Student Affairs Office
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28: P/E/A: Belatedly Presented Plans
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29: P/E/A: A Taste of What Even The Faculty Aren't Privy To
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30: A/P: "This Is What I Want When I Want It; To Hell with Niceties!"
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31: A/P: The Superior and the Subordinate
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June
02: P/E/A: "If I Say I Can't Do It, No Amount of Encouragement Can Make Me Go Otherwise"
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03: A/P: "In My Beliefs I'm Doing All Right"
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04: A/P: Beating and Missing Deadlines
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05: A/P: Relying on Middlemen Who Can't Deliver Messages Quickly Can Cost Real Money
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06: A/P: A Chance to Affect A Student and the School's Future In My Hands Again
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07: A/P: Teachers Should Think About How Repeaters Negatively Influence New Students
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10: A: When Teachers Try to Get The Most Work Out of Students, Is It Really Their "Best"?
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11: A/P: Tiny Steps Before Fully Computerized Enrollment
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12: P: A Variety of Social Interactions
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13: A/T: A Teacher Practicing Careful Recycling of Exam Questions
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16: P: May Not Serve As An Example, But Is Entertaining
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17: A/P: A Student Still Taking the Path of Least Resistance
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18: P/E/A: It Takes People of Different Viewpoints to Run A School
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19: A/T: Immediate Improvement when the Teacher Gives Direct Feedback
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20: A/P: Teachers and Students Catching Up On Previous Work
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21: A/P: So The Dean Hunt Wasn't Put On Hold After All
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24: A/P: Students From Other Schools Fall Through the Cracks When They Transfer
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25: A/P: Teachers Not Looking Out For the Students' Welfare But Their Own
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26: A/P: Like Poles Affect and Opposites Repulse
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27: A/P: A Lazy Student Unfortunately Up to the Same Old Tricks
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28: A/P: The Floodgates Have Opened
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30: A/P: Teachers Are The Worst People to Have Blinders On
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July
01: A/P: Teaching Is More of A Vocation for Some Than For Others
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02: A/P: To Gloat Over A Student's Mistakes is Not to Teach
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03: A/P: Repeating What Previous Plan Works, Even If It's Only Good, Not Great
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04: A/P: When A Teacher Reaches Beyond the Limit of Sympathy
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05: P/E/A: Student Leaders Not Wanting to Learn From Others' Mistakes
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07: P/E/A: At Such A Young Age, They Already Need Liquor to Give Themselves the Illusion of Their Own Self Worth
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08: A/P: The Ego of the Elected
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09: P/E/A: This Is Only Supposed to Be Six Hours A Week Deloading!
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10: A/P: Like Lemmings Testing The Borders of the Minefield
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11: A/P: The Difference A Line Makes
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12: A/P: Effort Made For Selfish Reasons Prioritized Over No Effort At All
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14: P/E/A: What Students Do With Too Much Rope
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15: P/E/A: Abusing the "Not My Job Description" Excuse
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16: P/E/A: "I Was Elected, I Can Do No Wrong"
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17: A/P: The Idealism of Young Instructors
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18: P/E/A: Snippets of News of A Scholastic Life
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21: A/P: Working As A Student Anticipating What A Teacher Thinks.
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22: A/P: Short Attention Span People Standing on the Shoulders of Patient Giants
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23: A/P: Lazy Teachers Don't Know About Days of No Rest
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24: P/E/A: Four Days Down, One to Go
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25: P/E/A: Still Too Close to Judge Accurately
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26: P/E/A: The Real Start of the Weekend
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28: P: Passing Hell on the Way to Heaven
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29: P: Taking The Bad with the Good
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30: P: A Boyfriend Who Needs Someone Else to Do the Thinking For Him
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31: A/P: All Aspects of the Community Touched Today
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August
01: A/P: Gee, Who Influences the Students on Minimum Work Output?
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02: A/P: Things Going My Way For Once
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04: A/P: A Faulty Grade-Keeping System is Better Than No System At All
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05: A/P: Winning Is Everything To Those Who Have Smaller Half Empty Glasses
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06: A/P: A Student Still Hoping For Passing Under the Radar
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07: A/P: A Laboratory Without A Custodian, Years of Organization Wrecked
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08: A/P: Students and Others Making Up For Lost Time
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09: A/P: Frustrating Friday
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11: T/A/P: Students Answering For Themselves
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12: A/P: A Repeating Rut of A Rant I Want to Get Out Of
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13: A/P: Possibly Unnecessary Missives From Afar
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14: A/P: Clerical Gray Areas
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15: A/P: Courses Where Excuses For Laziness Aren't Tolerated
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16: P: More Things People Do Out of Desperation
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19: A/P: Lock Is A Four Letter Word
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20: A/P: Teaching Obedience By A Whip or By Denial of Privilege?
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21: P: The Magic
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22: A/P: Negative Nellies
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23: A/P: Reminds Me of Wormtongue in Tolkien
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26: A/P: A Backseat Agitator At Work
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27: A/P: It's All Over For This Student But the Crying
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28: A/P: He Would Have Found Out Eventually, Better That It's From A Relatively Cool Head
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29: A/P: When the Dean Cat Is Away...
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30: A/P: CIA (Campus Investigation Authority) is Active
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September
01: A/P: Last Day of Finals On First Day of New Month
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02: A/P: A Gigantic Under the Administrative Table Letdown
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03: A/P: The Kid's Going To Grow Up to be a Scammer
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04: A/P: Someone Who Can't Distinguish Between Duty and Privilege
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04: A/P: Awaiting News of Next Term Developments
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06: A/P: Weekend of the Term Break
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08: A/P: Private Letter, Public Reply
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09: A/P: A Term With Nothing New On The Lecture Front
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10: A/P: Evaluations Lead to Possible Raises
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11: A/P: One Way of Telling Occurrences On Campus
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12: A/P: Behind the Chalkboard Talk
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13: A/P: Observing the Gorilla Again After Twelve Months
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15: A/P: Getting It All Out of My System NOW
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16: A/P: That Time of The Month Again for This Woman
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17: A/P: Week 2, Day 1 and Already Post 3 about 1 Student
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18: T/A/P: Standing Between The Fast and Slow Walkers, Someone Still Gets Left Behind
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19: A/P: Mediocre Work Will Always Tell
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22: A/P: Who Will Defend Me Against Them?
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23: Looping The Holes Around Official Policies
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24: Questionable Proceedings
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25: A Prank Gone Horribly Wrong Part II
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26: "I'll Put Everyone Around Me Down Until They Promote Me to Top Dog"
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27: Subconsciously I Think He Knows He's Bugging The Teacher
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29: Students Who Ask the Obvious, And How I Deal with One of Them
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30: One Employee Doing All the Work, and Another Not
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October
02: A Student Organization Not Serving The Students
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03: This Batch of OJT Presentors Only Slightly Better Than Last Year's
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04: I Don't Mind The People I Work For, It's The People I Work WITH
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06: Blustering Can Only Get You So Far with People Within Earshot
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07: "Let Everyone Go to Hell When We're Gone After Securing Our Retirement"
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08: "If We Suffered, Everyone After Us Should Also Suffer"
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09: Everybody Has To Be A Little Bit Judgmental Sometimes
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14: He Must Think We're All Stupid Around Him
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15: They Won't Have Any Fun Unless Everything is Free
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16: Directionless Excitement Is Least Helpful of All
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17: Hungry for Power and Title But Short on Brains
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18: I Almost Lasted the Whole Two Weeks Patient
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20: When The Devil Removes A Thorn He Inserts A Splinter
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21: It's Now Regular to Have Something New and Different
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22: Bring It On, Did I Say?
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23: A Pavlovian Experiment In the Classroom
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24: Reality Wins Out Over Illogical Hopes
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27: We'll Be Looking Up to the Skies Again
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28: When Angry People Expect Others to be Mind Readers
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29: It's Easy to Criticize Someone Else's Job or Lack of It
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30: Would Threats Work Against the Insensitive?
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31: A Student Still Refusing to Learn In Some Aspects
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November
03: Something Cringeworthy Last Friday
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04: "Be Afraid of Who I Can Complain To!"
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05: The Problem with Relying on Others to Do Their Jobs
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06: Teach Then Test Immediately Afterwards?
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07: My Next Few Days and The Day Before
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10: Bachelor of Science in Cutting Corners?
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11: Nothing About Classes Today
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12: Someone Not Being Honest Enough About Really Wanting the Job?
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13: An Unappetizing Lunch
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14: "They Respond to Me! They Must Really Like Me!"
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17: "She Will Like Me More After My Hitler-Like Performance"
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18: "I'll Just Talk to Them to Allow Me Past the Deadline; I'm Such a Charmer"
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19: A Fan of Wormtongue and Iago
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20: Seeing Another Side of One Person, and Only One Side of Another
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21: A Student Still One Track Minded, Just A Different Track From Before
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22: If They Win They Think Their Teachers Can't Fail Them
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