Chalkboard

[cefirus]

You want to hear what depresses me? I can't write on a chalkboard to save my life. I, a budding academic scholar, with completely legible and (some would say) beautiful penmanship, and my chalkboard skills are just nil. Every week when I work at the yoga center I have to update the chalkboard with yoga teacher substitutions. And I dread it. Usually

Comments

[ex_spaceship692]

Easy: Once you are a professor, leverage your newfound academic arrogance into only lecturing in rooms with whiteboards.

:)

You should also look into developing superhuman hearing and growing a pair of eyes in the back of your head. Or maybe those are just requisite for teachers and not higher-education professors?

[cefirus]

Definitely adding superhuman hearing to the list. And the pyschic ability to know if something is horribly awry with my appearance (something in my teeth, chalk dust on my face, shirt on backwards, etc.)

Hopefully by the time I get to teaching, they'll have done away with such antiquated notions as chalkboards. :-)

[paradox35]

Or get a funky room with only powerpoint projectors....make this a condition of your employment...then you never have to write on boards again. Powerpoint actually solves a multitude of problems. Until a power outage hits

[cefirus]

To get the kind of leverage to require powerpoint, I'll have to make sure my CV *really* looks good. Or maybe I'll just not write anything and expect students to keep up.

I actually was thinking about spelling concerns as well. And now I'll have to worry about butt jiggle. Powerpoint it is!

[eldestpredator]

Shitty chalkboard penmanship is awesome. It means you're there for the subject, not the classroom. You're there to teach kids important stuff, not just to spend your day with kids. It keeps the focus on the info and off the presentation. You're hot like lava. Don't overdo the sex power by having cutesy handwriting too.