- Going to the wrong classroom.
- Having the wrong class come to your classroom
- (It was about 30 minutes into the lecture before anyone told me they weren't my class).
- A complete failure of necessary technology.
- Power cuts in the middle of a lecture.
- White boards that are unwriteable due to no one erases them ever.
- Internet connections that don't connect.
- Computers rendered useless by viruses.
- Completely forgetting everything I know about a subject.
- I seriously could not figure out why some code wouldn't compile. Naturally, after the class was over, I looked at it and instantly noticed I'd left the * off my pointer declaration.
- Coming to school to find out there is some special occasion for which I am supposed to do something that no one bothered to tell me about beforehand. (And then I am supposed to speak and participate in a ceremony not in my language and I don't really know what is going on.)
Today my multimedia class wanted to learn about blogs. It turns out my Vodacom modem that is screamingly fast in my house can't get a connection inside the lab. A wonderful student offered her modem, which just happened to be a Zantel modem, which is the one ISP that absolutely does not play with Linux under any circumstances. Another wonderful student offered her computer, and then a third wonderful student had to show me how to get a modem to work on Windows. I told the class that this is an illustration of how failure is always an option. Particularly in science.
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