How College Works

We go through a slate article on what to ask about during a campus visit and give our take on each of the questions.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/03/best-questions-college-tour.html

We talk about what might constitute a tragedy and what steps students should take. We also discuss how we might handle a personal tragedy as professors.

We talk with someone who graduated more recently than us (9 years ago) about what was most difficult about the transition from high school to college and how he navigated that.

We discuss how we think about who needs to change (professor, teacher, student) and why. We also talk about how a student could approach a professor with the best chance of seeing a change.

We talk about some differences in how high schools and college handle their schedules, how that affects classes when the school is closed for weather, and how that affects our planning for our classes.

We talk about what's been going on and the everyday trials and tribulations of the college professor.

We talk about some recent complaints from our students and try to reframe them and their expectations as well as talk about the education industry some and what that means for our teaching.

We talk about the start to our semester, what our challenges are, how those relate to students, and how you can help . . . if you're inclined to.

We go through a list of things that stress student out from www.theodysseyonline.com and provide some comments and perspective.

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-college-consists-2017-students

We talk about what it means to us to mentor students, some things that help that to go smoothly, and some things to avoid.