Thursday, June 09, 2005
last day
I guess we had a kool last day thanks to liquid nitrogen. I know that we're not totally done with Chem yet and we do have The Show on June 22 but I want to congratulate my students on completing their Sophomore/Junior classes at St. Anthony's. From my perspective, this year flew by and I am impressed/relieved at how much work we got done under our extremely tight schedule.
I do regret that we didn't have time for more semi-amusing stories (or even a complete story would have been nice) and some occasional lower pressure classes but we were up against the clock from our relatively late start on. I hope that a crazy high Regents score will compensate somewhat for that.
Though my classes last year performed superbly on the Regents, I want to point out a clear advantage that this year's groups may have: you all are not at ALL shy about coming to extra help/review! That may be your secret weapon for jumping over the very high bar set by my classes from last year. I look forward to seeing you at the sessions; I think that you will find them informative and helpful; also, we won't have that time pressure of a 40 minute class so that will also help things to be somewhat relaxed.
I do regret that we didn't have time for more semi-amusing stories (or even a complete story would have been nice) and some occasional lower pressure classes but we were up against the clock from our relatively late start on. I hope that a crazy high Regents score will compensate somewhat for that.
Though my classes last year performed superbly on the Regents, I want to point out a clear advantage that this year's groups may have: you all are not at ALL shy about coming to extra help/review! That may be your secret weapon for jumping over the very high bar set by my classes from last year. I look forward to seeing you at the sessions; I think that you will find them informative and helpful; also, we won't have that time pressure of a 40 minute class so that will also help things to be somewhat relaxed.