Even though I have been a teacher for almost 5 years, I had never taught a class on the very first day of a semester. I previous schedules always had classes only on Tuesdays and Thursday. You could imagine then how surprised I was at the madness of the first day on campus!
There were people every where. Starting from the parking lot, I circled four times but failed to find a parking. This had never happen to me before, partly because I was having either early morning classes starting at 8:30 am or early evening classes. In the copy center, any time you came in, there were at least 3 people ahead of you waiting in line. Just when everyone needed the copy machine the most, it worked at even slower paces. I was running between classroom and copy center and lab prep room, and I was not the only one - in fact, many people were running, our department chair was one of them. After class, students were in line asking me about the assignments, adding to the class, etc. Then I was in line asking the department chair for a bigger classroom and so on. Basically, everything I did, it took four times longer than usual to finish.
On the other hand, today, the second day of the semester, it was much orderly and less chaotic. I did not know why. Maybe after yesterday, any day becomes a better day automatically.
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