Wow!

Rachel Lucas gave me a link!
And her rant today is pretty amazing. I agree with all of it, even if I do use the cell phone in the car from time to time…
I was glad to see her first bullet point. It used to seriously annoy me when people wouldn’t shut the fuck up in class. It used to seriously annoy a couple of my professors, too, and they weren’t shy about stopping dead in the middle of a sentence, giving the class an icy stare, and waiting for the undercurrent to die away, then pick up right where they left off.
One of these profs began every semester with something like the following: “There will be a midterm and a final, and a paper due at the last class meeting. You may rest assured that the final is comprehensive. If this is not what you were expecting, please see me at the end of the period, when I will be happy to sign a drop slip for you and we will part friends.” I never got less than an A- in his classes, and I only dropped one of them (because I got sick in the middle of the semester and missed a couple of weeks of class — I retook the class later on in my 10-year university career). He’s retiring at the end of the year…