Freshmen suck

God these kids drive me nuts. First, I was missing about 6 students total between the two classes I taught. These are people that I now have to arrange to meet outside of class to catch up. When they miss the first day of lab, they don't get signed in to Webboard and then, they don't have access to assignments.

Naturally, those people that missed are also the ones that didn't send me e-mails (their first assignment -- they have to send me e-mails so that I can add them to my contacts list -- I'm on "exclusive" on Hotmail and they need to be added to a "group" for announcements, etc.). So, I can't get ahold of them to let them know that they need to meet me.

As I was trying to get through lab, the over-anxious students bombard me with questions that demand the response, "I'm getting there; just hold on."

Why can't Freshmen just wait until it is clear that I'm done? I make it clear that I'm done because I say, "I'm done." Duh.

So now other parts of my body have that pins and needles thing -- not just my face. I hope this is all the stress of the first week of school combined with heat. And, of course, I could be imagining things. Psychosomatic. Hypochondria. Whatever.