My Admin professor is one of my favorites that I've had yet. I don't know her beyond being lectured at (i have other professors that i've talked to outside of class, worked on things with, talked about non-school stuff with, etc. but not her). She's strict as hell, but still funny. You have to stay on your toes, but she's still really casual in some of the ways she does things. She's also like 2 years older than me.

Class is at 8:30, and she's always there at 8:25. At 8:29, she starts making comments about how only 1/3 of the class is there, and should she even teach with only 1/3? She starts teaching, and people start trickling in, and usually, everybody is there for class --- eventually. Last week, some people came in at 8:34, and she stopped lecturing and said, "come in! come on, sit down! i don't want everybody late for the last classes!" Ooooh, they got in trouble.

Today was a wretched, rainy day. I was slow (as usual) getting out the door, and although I would prefer to leave the house a little early with the Things, and let them hang out with their friends for the 10 minutes before class starts, I was too disheveled. So I had less time once arriving on campus than usual.

And I didn't have coffee. I was so scared of getting YELLED at, that I went to class instead of the coffee shop. But it was 8:20, and there were only 3 of us in the room. The other 2 played the role of the red devil on my shoulder, and my haloed angel was not up to the 3 against 1 gang-up, so I ran (i mean LITERALLY RAN) to the coffee shop and got coffee.

Around 9, one of my classmates got up to use the ladies' room. She came back and started waving her arms frantically. Upon finally being acknowledged, she said, "um, there's a lot of first years gathered around outside the door, and they're all freaked out and kind of pale, b/c they have an exam in this room at 9:30."

our class ends at 10.

It was their Con Law exam. My Admin professor is also a 1L Con Law professor.

She was LIVID. There was really nothing to do. I mean, sure, she could have gone to Student Services, seen if she could arrange a room-change, but it would likely be US that would have to move, and by the time she found us a room and got us re-settled, it would be like, 9:45. Or so.

She decided to just lecture until 9:20, and then we would leave, and they could come and take their exam. But then she had an all-out rant. About the classrooms, an the facilities, and how the rooms SUCK, and how there aren't enough, and how could this be the best law school in hte COUNTRY [as far as she's concerned, she said], but have no ROOMS!!

What was refreshing was hearing that from the OTHER side of the podium. Of course, from our side, it's "how can we pay $35,000 a year, and have no ROOMS!!"

It truly is ridiculous, though. How could they not have cross-checked the exam room assignments with the upper year classrooms? We have ALWAYS been in this room. My other three classes played musical classroom for the first 3 weeks of school, but this class was the stable one. We started in this room, we THOUGHT we would end in that room.

Ridiculous.

posted by Zuska @ 9:32 AM

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