Paperwork

wtfteaching:

I’ll give you a tip about adulting: you don’t have to adult the same way other adults adult. The problem is that no one really teaches us how to adult properly, so when we become of age and we’re suddenly expected to act like adults, we act like the other adults we know. I think the most stark (and stupid) example from my own life was when I started “buying healthy food like a good adult” and kept buying melons because I always saw other people buying melons as a healthy snack/dessert. The problem? I hate melons. I’d just buy them, not eat them, throw them out, then buy more. It took me like 10 repeats of this to figure out that I didn’t actually have to buy melons, also am I a fucking idiot?

I began applying this to other parts of my life and now I will show you the AP syllabus that I gave to my AP class. Your teacher/professor is usually required to hand out syllabi* on the first day, or at least make them available. They’re always boring to read. Turns out they’re also boring to write. I decided to take it upon myself to address this.

I think that “follow you home and tell your grandparents to be disappointed in you” should be used as a threat lol 

*Fun Fact: “syllabuses” is also acceptable, which applies to other words with non-English roots as well. Since they’ve entered common use, we can now use English standard pluralization. I’m still holding out for “octopodes” to be used again, though. 

Despite the jokes you can make, “octopi” is unfortunately wrong.

…I’m sorry, we can’t be together…