Western has a January intensive period. You may recall me complaining about it last year. I hate it. However, as a second year, I got to pick what course I took for the intensive period at least. I went with Gender and the Law of Work because (a) as a woman who is well aware of pay discrepancy and other gendered issues in the workplace, I thought it would be interesting and informative and (b) I have heard great things about the prof. The downside of the course was the grading: 20% participation, 30% presentation and 50% paper. As someone with social anxiety, participation and presentations scare the crap out of me. I also believe that my more than $20k of tuition money is participation enough. That’s just me.
With that said, the prof mistakenly believed yesterday was the first day of class and sent an email stating that she would just be doing a course overview and anyone who did not intend on dropping did not need to attend. My friend attended yesterday and informed me that the entire class was all of 15 minutes and the prof elaborated that the presentations were to be super informal and that participation simply required attending half of our peers’ presentations. No need to talk or contribute but just be present for the presentations…and not even all of them. So that’s a load off and means that I likely won’t have to present to the whole class which takes pressure off for that as well. Now to just strategically plan when to present so it is likely fewer people will show – at the start will people be too busy to show up or will they want to see an example? At the end, will people have already put in their time and decide to take a longer break? Got to figure that out. Thankfully, when the prof realized that today is actually supposed to be the first day of classes, she decided to just do the overview again which means I am getting yet another day before having to return to classes and that is awesome.
Yesterday I had my groceries delivered. When I got hungry this morning, I made a bagel with cream cheese and when I was still a bit hungry, I decided to make a smoothie. Last time I made a smoothie with this matcha, I just put in a tablespoon and it was not nearly enough. This time I just sorta dumped a bunch of it in and hoped for the best. It is perhaps a bit chalky, which often comes with too much matcha powder but its got a whole lot of honey flavor. So overall, I am quite happy – watching Shameless on my couch while sipping my matcha smoothie on my last day of freedom before class.
You will do great!
Thank you!