Althouse: First day of classes.

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First day of classes.

It's the first day of classes here at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Don't you love the fall back-to-school feeling?

৮টি মন্তব্য:

Steve Donohue বলেছেন...: Wow, you guys start late up there- here at University of Illinois Champaign, we started 2 weeks ago.

Is it still exciting to begin again even after so many years of teaching (not to mention all the years of actually going to school)?; ৬/৯/০৫, ৮:০৮ AM
Ann Althouse বলেছেন...: It's a state tradition. I think it has to do with letting students keep Wisconsin resort jobs through Labor Day weekend.; ৬/৯/০৫, ৮:১৩ AM
Charlie Martin বলেছেন...: I dunno, Ann. I'm beginning to get a real complex about the time around labor Day weekend.; ৬/৯/০৫, ৮:১৯ AM
Anne বলেছেন...: I love the back-to-school feeling, particularly because I'm not in school anymore. I'm counting the days until we hear reports of another drunk underclassman toppling off a balcony. (I'm sure the law school is much more civilized); ৬/৯/০৫, ১০:০৯ AM
Mark Daniels বলেছেন...: I miss not going back to school in the fall of each year. It's been twenty-one years since I last was a student...in the formal sense, of course.

Speaking of terms. At OSU, my alma mater, and at the University of Cincinnati near where I live now, the quarter system prevails. So, fall term doesn't begin until the third or fourth week in September. The graduate school I attended--Trinity Lutheran Seminary--was also on the quarter system. I've always been an advocate of the system because the terms are shorter--ten weeks--and give more variety to students in their classwork each year.; ৬/৯/০৫, ১১:৩৬ AM
Ruth Anne Adams বলেছেন...: এই মন্তব্যটি লেখক দ্বারা সরানো হয়েছে।; ৬/৯/০৫, ১:৫৪ PM
Pat Patterson বলেছেন...: I teach at the high school level, we started today. My only observation will be that it is getting increasingly difficult to decipher the different clicques when 90% of the kids are wearing black t-shirts, jeans and Chuck Taylors(including the girls). And as usual, except for the AP kids, none have brought a notebook or anything to write with.; ৬/৯/০৫, ২:৪৭ PM
নামহীন বলেছেন...: It would be even nicer if there were some fall weather to go with it rather than the 86 degrees we had today. Gets awfully hot in the kitchen!; ৬/৯/০৫, ১১:০২ PM