I get to my digital design class early. I'm the first one there, so I turn on the lights, park my bag, and wander over to the window where I can admire the park and how the trees are greening up.
A few minutes pass. I'm still all alone. This is a little unusual; normally people start trickling in about this time. After a few more minutes, I take a brisk walk down through the department and see (1) no one in the labs and (2) the professor hunched in front of his computer and typing madly. He's got that "preparing for class at the last minute" look, so I figure we're having class.
The classroom is still empty.
Right at the time class is supposed to start, Guy with Too Many Cats comes in. "What's going on? Where is everybody?"
"I don't know. Was there an email I didn't get?"
"I didn't get it either." He sits down and we chat about Senior Projects, progress, and the lack thereof.
A few minutes after that, Dr. Flight shows up and the No Show King follows him into the room.
"Where is everybody?" Dr. Flight pulls the overhead projector into position and opens his box of transparencies. "We are having class today."
A couple more people come in.
The rest of us verbally abuse them for a while.
"Okay." Dr. Flight takes charge. "So there's only, like, 50% of the class here. I have to go down to NASA today, so I was going to make it a short class anyway. I take it there would be no objections if I let you have this as a project work day?"
No objections.
A couple more people come in as the rest of us are picking up our stuff.
297 words | April 7, 2005 08:07 PM | Ivory tower