Looking forward
Apr. 16th, 2013 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sinistraAs promised, 5th and 7th years, I am extending my regular office hours as you continue to review for your upcoming exams. A schedule of chances to practice charting with the projection stones (or outside, if the weather allows) is also posted. If you need additional time, or the scheduled times don’t work for you, please let me know, and we’ll find a time that does.
In addition, I have my own list of topics we’ll be reviewing in class, but please let me know about any areas where you would like additional time or conversation.
7th years: I am also reminded by a chat last night that many of you are looking ahead to life after Hogwarts. I do know of a few possible apprenticeships requiring good results on the Astronomy NEWT exam, but I also sometimes hear of others, and plan to do my usual asking around at the next Astronomy Guild meeting. If you are considering future plans, do let me know your interests and I’ll be glad to see what I can do to put you in touch with people with related positions.
My other years: please do be considerate of the exam year students. I am of course always glad to help you, or to discuss astronomy, but for the next month or so, do need to give priority to exam-related questions during office hours.
In addition, I have my own list of topics we’ll be reviewing in class, but please let me know about any areas where you would like additional time or conversation.
7th years: I am also reminded by a chat last night that many of you are looking ahead to life after Hogwarts. I do know of a few possible apprenticeships requiring good results on the Astronomy NEWT exam, but I also sometimes hear of others, and plan to do my usual asking around at the next Astronomy Guild meeting. If you are considering future plans, do let me know your interests and I’ll be glad to see what I can do to put you in touch with people with related positions.
My other years: please do be considerate of the exam year students. I am of course always glad to help you, or to discuss astronomy, but for the next month or so, do need to give priority to exam-related questions during office hours.
Re: Private message to Gilly Chadwick
Date: 2013-04-16 07:05 pm (UTC)You know that's not how I think, right? Not about you, not about Dai, not about your Juniper. Not about my students who are halfbloods. It's - it's so hard to figure out what to do about it, outside the little personal things. And I know you'd tell me, if I could do something specific.
It's just such a waste. How long it took you to find something that really uses your brains and how precarious you feel it is. Dai. The other stories you and Sigrun have told us. And I hate that that kind of - Hogwarts should be the place where the people who can be of use, can do good things, can be found and developed. We're not, right now, and it's getting worse and worse.
What surprised me a little is - there's more variation, among the Council, than I'd have thought. They fought for things to be like they are now, of course. But it's not black and white. They had different reasons, different bits they care about. Lots of planets around the sun. Similar, and yet not the same.
I'm saying this badly.
I remember our school years and how it was differentNever mind.