As the former leader instigator of a community-run podcast of short stories, wouldn’t I suggest a re-write before casting (to retcon cell phone voicemails) to deal with differing quality levels of audio equipment? 
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Some random guy? Griffin Newman, from…er…a few episodes of Vinyl?
But Jackie Earl Haley as The Terror?
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In teapots, often enough?
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jungian analysis of the current presidential race anyone?
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Would you be having me on?
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is anyone else in this game a school teacher?
do any of you spend time the sunday before school starts going back and getting ready like i do?
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Am I not on the “student” side of that equation? And don’t I hope that my profs are prepping today for tomorrow’s classes, as I am still lacking syllabi from two of them?
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I rarely give my syllabus out until the 2nd or 3rd class; is that really so irritating?
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But won’t I always associate the Tick with Patrick Warburton?
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Do you also avoid giving out homework info until about 10:00-10:30pm at night, when the class started at 8:30am the next day? Because didn’t one of my kids have a college language professor like that? And wasn’t she told she probably just didn’t understand how college worked?
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Would someone really do that? Why wouldn’t I let them know what their work is ahead of time because I actually want them to do it and to get something out of it? Isn’t that the point of going to college, to learn something? Maybe it was the professor who needs to learn how “college actually works”?
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Don’t I agree with you totally? Wasn’t I horrified to think that someone could be that unprofessional? Didn’t I ask a friend who is a tenured professor for his opinion, and didn’t he tell me that there’s nothing to be done because no one is allowed to question how a teacher teaches a class at the college/university level unless they break a law?
Would it surprise you to learn that he was also a very bad teacher in general? And that she’s had two other teachers since then in the same language from the same school, both of whom were significantly better, and who did not think highly of the first teacher at all? How could all three be at the same level in the same school, despite being of clearly different skill levels?
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No, really, why would you wait? Don’t I have profs who go over the syllabus and start lectures during the first class meeting? Shouldn’t profs want the students to know what they’re getting into before the classes begin?
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Isn’t this the truth? Is the fact they’re teaching this semester such surprise to them? Don’t I have travel plans to finalize, that had the prof answered my emails I could already have finalized? If they can’t be bothered with that, wouldn’t posting the syllabus be the least they could do?
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Sure, isn’t it better to let them know what they’re in for so they can figure out if they should drop another class to keep yours because it’ll be more interesting/useful?
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Why not both?
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Maybe because I don’t know until the middle of the fist week of classes how many students I have in the class? And the way I deal with homework and exams differs if I have a class with 12 students or one with 200?
Don’t I have profs who go over the syllabus and start lectures during the first class meeting
Isn’t this pretty standard?
How can the syllabus help with this? Doesn’t your school have the academic calendar and final exam schedule set and easily found on the school website or catalogue?
Can I ask if this was a state university? Because in my experience this kind of thing is most common at private research universities, but will usually get sorted at schools like mine before the person gets tenure?
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Doessn’t the structure of the courses I’m taking make your points invalid? Does anyone in my program actually have finals, isn’t everything project related and don’t the specific due dates, particularly for presentations matter? Have I even ever had a final exam in grad school?
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Wow, really? What’s up with your school that they don’t set the class sizes/enrollment limits before registration?
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