I just this hour started signing emails to my students with my initials. I swore up and down I'd never do that. It's so pretentious.
You know, that happens a lot to me with this job. Ever since I started in grad school. Like, 'When *I'm* a TA, I won't make undergrads go to a boring discussion section...When *I'm* an instructor, I'll never skip out on class time with undergrads to go to a nice lunchie-lunch...' (Actually, that one happened yesterday.)
But I don't want to sign my first name to emails. And writing out first and last name takes forever. And is weird.
So here I am again.
3 comments:
you could add a signature to all of your emails. that way you wouldn't have to write it out every time.
when you went to write an email, it would already have...
"Go jump in a lake,
Prof. Your Small American"
... (or whatever) at the bottom
Chris signs most of his emails to me with CB or CLB if that makes you feel any better.
Let's make a list of all the things we said we would never do but now do!
1) Defend busywork as an important pedagogical tool.
2) Not return emails, either because the question is stupid (where is the classroom?) or because student is a great white tool.
3) Cancel class to go to a fictional lecture/meeting.
I sign my emails with my first initial if I know you. So when I get emails from my adviser in which he signs using his first initial, I take that as a compliment.
CQ
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