To Teach or Not To Teach. This Is The Question.

Yesterday in my teachers union newsletter they had a page comparing college contingent teacher salaries to that of someone working at Walmart. Here are the stats. To work at Walmart you do not have to have a high school degree. To work at a college or university you must have a Master's or PhD. Walmart $9.13 per hour. Higher education pays $7.78 after all the work put into a class is done. On average there are 3 applicants for each Walmart job opening. For a faculty position there are usually 87 applicants per opening. Hmm.

OMG GTA!

Oh my God! Grand Theft Auto 5 came out yesterday! I would not have known this if I didn't teach at a junior college. Some students missed class because they stayed home to play it and some left early. You'd think the school would have considered it a holiday and cancel all classes. Maybe it should have been a federal holiday. Or maybe all those kids should have gone to church instead. I guess it's the most violent version yet. Even my stripper student was complaining that it was too graphic and the language was too vulgar.

The Windy City

I don't know why they call Chicago the windy city. It can't be windier than San Francisco, can it? Here is a photo of me and my sister, Whitney, trying to walk down the street last week. Our friend Gaelan took it.