doghouseman
Tele-Holic
I have this EXACT same dream. Usually some math course.
Now here's an end-of-the-semester anxiety dream that's new to me
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doghouseman
Tele-Holic
This sounds perfectly normal to me. Just your brain trying to cope with stress.
Marc Morfei
Friend of Leo's
Ha. Mine is always some history or literature class, where I have to read like 3 books and write papers all in one weekend, on top of prepping for all my other finals.
aFewGoodTaters
Tele-Meister
I've been out of college for 20 years, but I still occasionally have the dream where I'm getting all set to graduate and then realize there is a class I forgot to attend all semester and have a final paper due.
Glad I spent all that money and time to be emotionally scarred for life.
Glad I spent all that money and time to be emotionally scarred for life.
doghouseman
Tele-Holic
My kids are in college and I tell them they are going to be dreaming about final exams the rest of their lives. They just laugh at me.I've been out of college for 20 years, but I still occasionally have the dream where I'm getting all set to graduate and then realize there is a class I forgot to attend all semester and have a final paper due.
Glad I spent all that money and time to be emotionally scarred for life.
Just today, three weeks into the semester, a student came to my office saying that she'd been told that she could take our course online and that the university didn't notify her she'd actually have to take it as a regular class. "This is like one of my nightmares," she said. "Can I still take the class, please?!" I almost laughed as I assured her that yes, of course, she can take the class, and have some time to catch up, etc. (Of course I verified her story first. You'd be amazed at how many grandmothers' exploding alarm clocks carried off by very localized twisters I hear about in a given year.)
Now, if only the IRS could make room for nightmares to end, eh?
Now, if only the IRS could make room for nightmares to end, eh?
SRHmusic
Friend of Leo's
Several of you (@Killing Floor @Bob Womack @Marc Morfei @doghouseman @aFewGoodTaters) mentioned an end of semester dream. A few years into my first job, I was walking to lunch with four of my colleagues and I asked, "Did you ever have that dream where it's the end of the semester and you realize you forgot you were enrolled in an English course and the final is the next day, or to read some huge book and start some big paper that's due, and you won't be able to graduate?"
They all laughed out loud and said they all had exactly that same dreams and variations. We called it The Engineer's Dream.
I haven't had that one in a long time now, so hopefully it fades after 20 years.
They all laughed out loud and said they all had exactly that same dreams and variations. We called it The Engineer's Dream.
I haven't had that one in a long time now, so hopefully it fades after 20 years.
Nope, nope, nope.Several of you (@Killing Floor @Bob Womack @Marc Morfei @doghouseman @aFewGoodTaters) mentioned an end of semester dream. A few years into my first job, I was walking to lunch with four of my colleagues and I asked, "Did you ever have that dream where it's the end of the semester and you realize you forgot you were enrolled in an English course and the final is the next day, or to read some huge book and start some big paper that's due, and you won't be able to graduate?"
They all laughed out loud and said they all had exactly that same dreams and variations. We called it The Engineer's Dream.
I haven't had that one in a long time now, so hopefully it fades after 20 years.
The class-you-didn't-know-you-had-until-the-last-day is a math or science class. The kind you can't BS your way through.
Which is why I'm an English teacher.
No foolin'!
SRHmusic
Friend of Leo's
Ha! Well, that would be The English Major's dream, then. (I had no idea, but it makes perfect sense.)
I got as far as FOIL in Algebra I. Then the teacher--enough of a weary but kindly veteran to see that I was truly at my limits--let me sit by the window reading my lit and history texts, as long as I hid those books behind a screen of the propped-up and massive math textbook. I'm tempted to do the same when my students c'an"Ðt riTe to like saF e they;re lifes', )š, But...I just can't.
Marc Morfei
Friend of Leo's
And all all this time I thought I was the only one. The things you learn here at TDPRI…Several of you (@Killing Floor @Bob Womack @Marc Morfei @doghouseman @aFewGoodTaters) mentioned an end of semester dream. A few years into my first job, I was walking to lunch with four of my colleagues and I asked, "Did you ever have that dream where it's the end of the semester and you realize you forgot you were enrolled in an English course and the final is the next day, or to read some huge book and start some big paper that's due, and you won't be able to graduate?"
They all laughed out loud and said they all had exactly that same dreams and variations. We called it The Engineer's Dream.
I haven't had that one in a long time now, so hopefully it fades after 20 years.
