It’s OVER!!
Yep… this semester is finally over! After racking what was left of my brain over finals, I took a couple of days to recoup and reflect over the past several months.
Apparenty, although not brain surgery (which I certainly would flunk), Botany is at least knee surgery. I wasn’t able to flim-flam the teacher into believing I actually knew the shit, so it looks like I’ll only squeek by with a "B" in that one. Just ask me what a friggin Wikiwiki Wiliwili tree is tho!
English, as expected, went well. What the hell, some of my ancestors came from England via Australia and the rest met the boat, so I guess I should know how to spell and speak English…at least most of the time. My punctuation sucks, but maybe that’s a good thing. It gave the teacher something else to look at besides my writing, lol The school did choose one of my stories to put in their book, so that probably helped.
Did you know that the Sun is actually one huge Hydrogen bomb, or that scientists expect that it will burn out in about 5 billion years? Just a couple of the useful bits of information I expect to immediately dump from my memory banks, along with all the reasons the evil Western civilization is responsible for the destruction of Hawaiian plantlife (Botany). (Not that the facts about Western civilization aren’t true, but damn… I really didn’t need to hear it every day for the entire semester.) Astronomy was actually very interesting and the instructor did cut us all some slack, realizing that the formulas for calculating the distance, luminosity, and magnitude of Betelgause was probably not going to be extremely helpful to Psych or English majors. Grading on a sharp downhill slope may have helped me on this one, lol
The fun part of Philosophy is that, when they ask you to write your "opinion" of some long-dead, old guy’s writings… it’s pretty damned hard for them to say you’re wrong, rofl. In any event, I had fun with the professor. Ain’t nothing like seeing a young teacher with the "deer in the headlights" look. 
He seems to enjoy B’Tude and I, since we aren’t what you could call your average college students. Hey, you have to take your little pleasures in school where you can get em!
So… that’s the brief summary of my semester.
Since I may one day actually get through all this brain cramming to become a professor myself, one of the things on my mind is— What kind of teacher will I be? What does it take to be a good teacher?
What do all of you think—Just what does it take to be a good teacher?