destabee | Not how I planned to bring the courses to an end

I left fro campus shortly after 7 a.m. At 9:45 part of the power goes out on campus. Part as in some offices had dead computers but working lights, two of the three rows of lights in my classroom worked, very strange. I go off to teach my 10 a.m. class is in a room with windows. Only about 8 of 40 students are there when class starts along with 8 students taking part in a campus visit. About 40 minutes into the class a voice on the loud speaker announces that campus is closing as a result of a power outage and everyone needs to leave campus. I plead with the students to stay 5 more minutes to complete teaching evaluations. Chaos reign as folks try to figure out if all classes for the rest of the day are canceled, how to deal with papers that were to be turned in today, what to do about classes where we planned to give course evaluations this afternoon, etc.

I suppose all this is fitting given that the semester started with class on hold for severe weather and a computer system failure.

I headed back to Chesterton along roads that are becoming very narrow thanks to drifting snow where I met CR for have lunch at the Thai place in town. Now I am home and preparing to take a nap. Hopefully campus will regain power soon so that I can deal with grading online work.