No one can ever prepare a would-be teacher...

for the realities of grading. I don't care how interesting your assignments, how creative or insightful or malaprop-prone your students, reading 110 of the same thing is deadly.

And I've got about five assignments backed up, to the point where I'm like, Please, steal my bag! Good riddance!

To think that I told my students not to save their homework for the last day of vacation....