Choices

Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

~ Kevin Aucoin

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Grad school is about choices. Not just choosing the mood or a career or a project or a team to do the project. It's about choosing whether or not do your homework which - by extension - is a choice about whether or not to stay in grad school.

Future

The faculty member could in fact see the students' futures. The information about the future was rarely shared with students, though. That would not only ruin the surprise, but would also let everyone know that -- well, I shouldn't say.

Congratulations

The faculty member was fine congratulating the student on their accomplishment, but simply purchasing a mortarboard was not really the end of the process in getting the degree.

Disappointed Professor

The professor who finds out they are teaching assessment in higher education might be disappointed. 

For those of you in the assessment class, it isn't because the professor doesn't want to teach assessment in higher education. It's probably because when they got their courses assigned they had once course called "Asses in Higher Ed" and they thought it was a completely different type of course.