Saturday, January 12, 2008

The class I'm teaching is a nutrition course. The classroom is in one of the engineering buildings. As I was setting up my laptop for my lecture yesterday, with the students from the previous class filing out of the room and my students filing in, one of the students from the previous class came up to me and asked bewilderedly, "What class is this?"

"Nutritional Assessment," I replied, somewhat confused as to why he looked so confused.

"Oh. It's just in engineering classes there aren't usually so many..." His voice trailed off.

"Ah. Not usually so many girls. You are wondering where all these women are coming from!"

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Overall, the first lecture seemed to go well. It was waaaaay too short, as I suck at estimating how long it will take me to present stuff. But it's not like anyone is going to complain about leaving early on a Friday. Plus, it gave students lots of time to come up and chat with me, which several did. I love to see that kind of enthusiasm for learning!

Since this was the first class, it was just introductory/refresher stuff, so I was able to get through the material at a fairly rapid pace, as it wasn't the first time most of the students had seen this stuff. I'm hoping that I was able to convey my passion for the material by the high energy style. Or something like that. All I know what the I was fucking exhausted by the time I got home!

The rest of the classes will be more challenging, as more of the material will be new to them (and to me!).

1 comment:

Kalev said...

Oh my gosh, wow... so engineers really are the social inepts that I imagine them to be!