Intense stress
this is a recent blog by my dear housemate Sarah on our recent method of stress release:
toast to tommie
If you would happen upon our front porch today, you would find shattered across the steps remenants of student teaching "merch." I, claiming defeat from the upcoming Praxis exam and credential deadlines, along with Jen, protesting against her own war of attrition with full-time teaching and real teaching application deadlines, went to war against a copy of an efolio with a croquet mallet. Each power swing was dedicated to a different factor of stress in our world. Seeing the destruction complete, we floated away with a bounce of grace and punctuated the event with a feminine sigh.Here's to balancing an academic life with a professional life, to the students who do not take notes in class or attend study sessions and thus fail the exams, to the catch-22 of applying to school districts for our first jobs without actually having credentials, to the incomprehensible Praxis II exam study guides, to having the pressure of not being the first IWU students to fail the Praxis II exams, to the bloody huge portfolios we meticulously created for school districts that don't want to look at them, to the onslaught of deadlines and paperwork, and to the fast approach of graduation.
posted by Digs at 4/10/2005
toast to tommie
If you would happen upon our front porch today, you would find shattered across the steps remenants of student teaching "merch." I, claiming defeat from the upcoming Praxis exam and credential deadlines, along with Jen, protesting against her own war of attrition with full-time teaching and real teaching application deadlines, went to war against a copy of an efolio with a croquet mallet. Each power swing was dedicated to a different factor of stress in our world. Seeing the destruction complete, we floated away with a bounce of grace and punctuated the event with a feminine sigh.Here's to balancing an academic life with a professional life, to the students who do not take notes in class or attend study sessions and thus fail the exams, to the catch-22 of applying to school districts for our first jobs without actually having credentials, to the incomprehensible Praxis II exam study guides, to having the pressure of not being the first IWU students to fail the Praxis II exams, to the bloody huge portfolios we meticulously created for school districts that don't want to look at them, to the onslaught of deadlines and paperwork, and to the fast approach of graduation.
posted by Digs at 4/10/2005
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