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sitting here at two thirty ay em, trauma dumping on a professor in gmail, bc somehow this is the only way they'll even consider maybe making a deadline slightly flexible?
haha just remembering how the last time i did this i was denied accommodations ha ha ha ha ha
sat there trembling for hours in anxiety bc i had just, again, TRAUMA DUMPED to a PROFESSOR to gain BASIC EMPATHY and now i'm about to do it all over again lol i hate it here!
profs, do not email to "express your concern" if 1. u don't mean it and ur only goal is to scare your student into apologizing for missing class/deadlines etc, or 2. u aren't prepared to hear the raw truth of what ur students are going thru + make immediate adjustments for them
if u do send this email maybe include a line that says something like, oh, idk, "no need to give specifics if ur not comfortable, just say ur having a bad time and i will do everything to help u"
and then maybe also offer potential solutions/adjustments yourself that u would be ok letting ur student do, bc it is really really hard to articulate what we need right now beyond all-out canceling classes lol
and also, when u ask us to suggest what would work best for us, we don't know what you're ok with (and many profs aren't prepared to hear the answer for what we actually need), so we're forced to wildly guess which accommodations you may or may not reject and it sucks
whatever i know not v many profs follow me on here bc most of academic twitter hates undergrads for some reason, as the harassment i get every time @IsabelOtt retweets me has proven, but if ur a prof and u do see this, pls consider. and if u are trying already, ty, i love u
just thinking how wild it is that i addressed this thread mostly to academics and yet i Greatly Fear them ever finding it skldjfsldjfla
