Also, the Politics Department senior oral exam deadline is this week, so students are rushing around trying to make special appointments with me. I feel more like a CEO managing a mid-size company, albeit without secretarial help. Obviously, the amounts of stress pressing down on both professors and students creates a great need for fun, and at Pomona there is an almost endless variety from which to choose. No other class gives me the opportunity to be so physically and mentally committed that all other concerns are forgotten. Although I know the music inside and out, I just let myself enjoy it.
People have to stop themselves occasionally and just enjoy their own accomplishments.
My Mondays are always my most hectic days, and I am usually mega-stressed. But today, I decided to indulge myself rather than having a heart attack over homework. Another relaxing event for many is dinner, which like lunch is generally viewed as a communal experience. And often, I feel privileged just to preside over the conversation. While Seery presided over the debate in Contemporary Politics and Theory, Assistant Professor Bryan Penprase's Archeo-Astronomy and World Cosmology course was holding a different kind of academic session.