Proctor!!

The hard part of teaching -- the lecturing -- is over. But the course will drag on for a little longer. But today I'm another step closer to being done, because now the exam is over. It wasn't a huge disaster, but it was two hours of trying to be in four different exam rooms at once to answer questions and the rooms, as usual, were hot. I wonder if the students think I have some kind of sweating disease.

The university provided a proctor for each room, but the proctors didn't necessarily even speak Spanish and were basically just there to (in theory) prevent cheating. Fifteen minutes after the exam was supposed to have ended, one of the proctors hadn't even made the students turn in the exams yet. "They're being slow," she said hand-wringingly. Christ. I understand being afraid of the students, but that's just negligent.

But anyway, nothing exploded and no one died and the exams are multiple choice and will be graded by machine and this is all moving along and now it's one step closer to done. Score.