Teaching comparative politics

I am teaching again this semester and I find it only appropriate to warn you that you should expect a series of posts about various student-related issues.

In general, I enjoy teaching. I like the cool kids and make fun of the dumb ones which seems to fly well. Also, I am a lot better prepared to deal with stuff now that I actually have a little bit of experience teaching. Still, I suspect I might need your creative input as things come up. Like, for example, how do you make people understand that getting ready to leave 10 minutes before lecture is over is so fucking irritating and rude!!! Honestly, if I had the power, I would get a bow with arrows and pin each anxious bastard to their seat the minute they start shuffling their papers around. I was thinking that screaming out the firmest loudest 'NO' I am capable of could make them stop and reconsider. That's a trick I learned in self-defense class. If you get attacked on the street, the first thing you do is precisely that. You extend your arm and say 'NO' as loudly as you can. Apparently, most attackers do not expect that and many of them are very likely to back off.

As you see, I've got important things on my mind today. All that disciplinary stuff and, of course, what to wear to my first lecture tomorrow. Decisions decisions.