WOW, SORRY MELANIE

whoops, um, yeah I don't know what I was thinking, but my last post to ANNA was really meant for Melanie...sorry you two...and, Melanie, regarding your second shorter post about not feeling you're a teacher...um...none of us are...no worries...i'm not...you're not...yeah, in the eyes of Purdue, we're pretty damn close, but don't worry if the feeling doesn't consume you the second you walk into a classroom...it takes time! trust me....trust me...it took me three semesters to realize I was a grad student, a year to realize I was married, and only recently have I begun to think of myself as eve ready to teach high school...but, guess what: none of us are high school teachers...sure, we're "teachers" in the colloquial sense of the word, but we don't have students yet...we don't grade papers on the weekends...that will come with time! you'll know when it sinks in...it may be after grading your first round of papers, or yelling at your first class about how their papers sucked...or it may be the first time a student says "thank you" or maybe "i hate this class"...who knows...but you'll eventually feel that way...and when you do, it will be great...trust yourself