thinking is the new black

I would like to say for the record that ‘marking sucks’. Official.

I’m faced with a pile of first year reading logs, plus assignments for two other modules I teach on, and am slowly loosing the will to live. There is a strange lump forming on the middle finger of my right hand through clutching a pencil for 16 hours, and my eye-balls feel oddly sore.

Marking is the short straw when you’re a lecturer on an hourly rate. It takes time to mark carefully and give useful feedback and I, like so many other research students do not get paid for this or the preparation for classes. Therefore the deceptively decent rate of pay when divided by actual time invested in the role, works out at roughly £1.23 per hour at a rough guess.

Grrrrrrrr!