New Sem Resolutions

As you might know, I'm a college instructor. My professional life is actually a 5-month semestral cycle, just like the academic life of a student. It starts when classes start and ends when classes end. In every semestral beginnings comes excitement and anticipation (even when the subjects you are gonna teach are not what you dream of) brought about by the commencement of a new professional life: new faces, new courses to teach, new preparations, new experiences, new blooppers. And every semester (much like every New Year), I make resolutions. I always look back the previous semester and see what has gone wrong (believe me, something always goes wrong like not being able to submit grades on time or being habitually late) and ponder on how to prevent things from going wrong again and promise to make things better for the coming semester and swear to myself to keep them. But, well, like New Year's resolutions, new sem resolutions are never kept either. I do try so hard to though (that has to count for something, right?).

So this time, I thought of posting my resolutions for this semester (which has just begun) so that there is evidence that I made some and that you, dear non-existent readers, can remind me of them. Ok, here it goes:

* I will submit grades on time.
* I will come to class on time all the time.
* I will check papers immediately so that I can return them to my students immediately.
* I will be more organized with my portfolio, and just be organized with everything.

I guess that would be all for now. I don't want to make so many of them coz that would be so many unkept promises. I know those are what a "good" teacher is supposed to do. Oh well, we all have our shortcomings, right? Hehe...justification?!