Addendum addendum –

From speaking with my parents – my dad has a lot of good teaching advice – I got some good perspective on the half bad evals that I got from the first term of my freshman writing class.

Though, my parents are certainly intense.

“I’ve always hated how people say learning should be fun,” my mom was like.  “People need to recognize that learning is work, and maybe at times it’s fun, but first and foremost it’s work, and sometimes a lot of it.”

She also said she thought that it was "fucked" that the dept. head gave me advice only based on student evals.

"Really, what do students know?", she was like.  "That's just crazy."