FINALS

This is a good week to be a college Prof. Classes are over, give a few final exams, calculate grades and bingo, your week is accounted for. For most profs, this week carries a built in excuse to do little else, since we have to "prepare and grade final exams", then "work on final grades". That goes a long way this week in terms of accounting for your activities as a prof. Truth is, about an hour after an exam in complete, I have them graded and the final graders determined using Excel. Thank goodness for scantrons and computers! So I will have a lot more "casual" time this week. Not having to come in so early or at all and having not lectures to prep for. Of course, students go crazy this week worrying about their final grades. And frankly, it is tough to have a student for 14 weeks and have to tell them they failed your class and will have to repeat. If it is the second time they have taken the class, then that is the end of their career at BCHS. Big responsibility, but we do the best we can to teach, tutor and advise so that students manage to get through our programs if they are willing to put in the time to study enough. I hope not to have to fail anyone in Patho and I don't think anyone in Micro or API is close to failing (Below a C). I will keep you posted.

Cowboys won! Panthers lost (boo) and my UK Wildcats got beat again by a big rival, the Indiania Hoosiers (booooooo). At 5-3 already, this season appears to be headed toward the type that UK fans aren't used too.... maybe as many as 8, 9 or even (heaven forbid) 10 LOSSES! UK basketball fans are spoiled. As the winningest NCAA team all time and second with 7 National Championships, we expect a final four team every year and a championship every few years. Even a sweet 16 team is a losing year if we don't win a regional championship.

We'll see.

Good day.