Retecpa

I have so much newfound respect for my lecturers. I never had the hierarchical respect thing built in like the law faculty strives to cultivate, and so never really gave a sh*t about any of it. As I get older, and become more and more ‘staff’ than ‘pupil’, I have learned to appreciate the mammoth task they are set, and the daunting experience of teaching students.

The bored looks, the cynical scoffs, the relentless glee they hold onto when you make the tiniest mistake. I have been taught by some of the greatest legal minds, and still had the audacity to fall asleep in the third row. I have never until now appreciated just how hard it is to stand up there.

But it’s when they give that ‘screensaver’ look that I get a little despondent. The eyes glaze and although they seem to be concentrating, you can almost see the “Windows pipes” drawing and connecting through their eyes. If analysis were done, I expect they would find the glassy exterior of these students’ eyes is an aquarium scene. I want to lean forward and shake my mouse at them to re-activate the screen (and that is not a euphemism). I don’t want power-saving mode.

“Perhaps it’s me?” one has to wonder. Tomorrow is another day, and Thursday presents the opportunity of another class. Let’s hope it goes better the second time around…