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“Although basically cool and cautious, when it's caught by surprise, it's seized by panic.”
>What a strange way to word it
>Doesn’t everyone feel that way when their plans don’t work out the way they think they will?
>You were always a cautious and procedural person, that’s why you became a math major
>Of course, in order to be a reasearcher, you needed to earn your keep and serve as a professor for undergraduate classes
>If no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy, then no lesson plan survives first contact with students
>whether the horoscope level writing from the video game was right or not, you needed to prepare materials
>the master slide deck could still be used as the textbook and course standards from the department hadn’t changed
>writing new problems for quizzes and exams wouldn’t be an issue
>but the little things were nagging at you
>do you update your profile photos in the school directory?
>how much do you have to explain in the syllabus?
>what do you say? “Here’s my CV, my list of citations, my pokedex number, and my office hours”
>then there was the question of dealing with the students in person
>campus police offered protection, but you hoped that wasn’t necessary
>besides, during your isolation you had figured out the basics of how to fire the quills by practicing in the back yard
>those cans never knew what hit them