Categories: teaching
Date: 03 March 2008 19:31:24
Last week in the tutorial, one of the students let slip that he was going to be 18 in 6 days' time (which I think means today) (don't forget Scotland take students at 17, as the school system is different and they do their highers at 17 - but then do 4 year degrees). So this means that for the first time, I am teaching students who weren't born when the Berlin Wall fell. I made some comment about him being very young and making me feel old, and he said that his sister was 34 (I think he was trying to be kind and imply that he hung out with oldies and that maybe we weren't so bad). I just looked at him and pointed out that 34 isn't old either (those were the days).
Next year will be the first year that I teach students who were born after I left university. Creak.