More Songs About Buildings and Food gets me to the classroom on time.
I have adopted this and made it my own!
Watch me work!
Watch me work!
WORK! WORK!
It’s the students who really have the scary work ethic down. I want an A, they say, how do I get an A? And I try to tell them, if I could tell you how to write the A paper then it wouldn’t be an A paper—it needs to surprise me—but I’m not sure the message is getting across. At 9:30 I leave the classroom with chalk dust all over my shoes, like an honest-to-God intellectual prole.
