The class I am TA-ing, Intro to BioAnth, has 84 students. Those 84 students attend an hour long lecture 4 days a week (which I don't have to attend) and once a week, they attend lab on their scheduled day. That means that we run the same lab 4 times in a week for about 20 students a section. This week's lab was on genetics and phenotypes. The students have a lab manual with questions for the week and do a lab write-up from that. I grade those. Unfortunately for me, Dr. Stevenson doesn't use Canvas, so all 84 of those students will be emailing me their lab write-ups individually. I guess I am commenting on them and emailing them back to them. What a pain! For next week, I am working on getting the online system set up so they can just upload their assignment and I can grade online all at once.
The one good thing about getting up so early is that my officemates don't usually come in until afternoon, so I have a quiet place to work. That bad thing is I am in my office or in class for about 10 hours on Tuesdays. That's my longest day of the week. Friday is my shortest. I only have an hour and twenty minutes of class, no lab and I don't need to be in the office for anything.
I just finished my latest assignment for Research Methods. The assignment was to gather 100 sources for our thesis, list them in the proper bibliographic style and add the abstract to each one. We use a program called Zotero to keep track of our research materials, so I figured out how to change the code so it added the abstracts to my bibliography for me. That only worked for about 75 of my sources though, so I had to add the rest by hand. Most of my sources involve decomposition and entomology. Oh my!
Medical Anthropology is going well. I have to pick a topic for my final paper soon. I am hoping to do something that will work with my thesis topic too.
Kelly was here for the weekend. He arrived on Friday night. We met in a hotel in Bellingham. On Saturday, we went for a drive. For Kelly, usually means that we end up at a casino. It's all good though because he won a little bit and it covered our food and hotel. We stayed in Everett on Saturday night. Last night, we stayed in my dorm because my roommate was gone. We went to the movies last night and saw The Revenant. Kelly really liked it. Parts of it horrified me. Eek. Kelly left this morning to go home. I miss him already. He told me we will be seeing each other every two weeks, no matter what. I will go home or he will come here.
I didn't take a single photo this week. Blame it on the rain.
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