I think I’ve found a way to condense about twice the material normally presented into a CS class. Unfortunately, everyone just thinks I’m overestimating the students’ ability. Perhaps that’s true, perhaps not, but now there is no way to tell. Worse, there’s no way to pick out the students who would excel in such an environment.

How are new educational methods tested, if not in a classroom? How will the system ever improve?

Why am I the only one who cares?

*Shrug* No choice but to see how it works. Maybe the students really don’t have the potential I give them credit for. It is my first time teaching, after all.

Seeing possibilities is so incredibly frustrating. Anyone who thinks it’s a picnic doesn’t do it very often. My life isn’t easier for it. Quite the contrary: I’ve probably exhausted several typical lifetimes of mental anguish, and I haven’t even broken 25 yet.