I've begun today's entry in an instructor's resource room in the NE1 building. I'm at the Burnaby campus. My students are using an extra fifteen minutes before break to complete course evaluations. This, in fact, proves that my present class will soon be coming to a screeching halt. Tomorrow afternoon, the students will write their final examinations.I cannot help but compare this ebb and flow to some of types of jobs where the daily tasks remain annoyingly constant. I've talked about this concept previously here. Maybe, I've already discussed almost everything in my eJournal and images blog. Sometimes I fear this may be a risk in having blogged daily for so many years. I guess it doesn't really matter, does it? Repeating oneself isn't a crime.
Even tomorrow's examination is the same basic writing test I have used for several years now. As a young teacher I used to think I had to keep re-inventing the wheel every single time. Yet, if something works, there's no real need in changing it. I do update my tests. There is always something to tweak. For example, I have a question that includes a graph of gasoline prices. That's something which surely hasn't remained static during the last half decade.