Once again, deadline season is fast approaching and the school is tranformed for the nth time to a lean mean paper churning machine. Seatworks and activity sheets are being given out at their fastest pace. Students are answering and returning research papers, lab sheets, and problem sets at large volumes everyday. And teachers are up to their necks with things to check and to make.

While the students are complaining about the load and the stuff their doing, they have no idea what goes on inside the faculty area. They don’t understand that the load they’re answering cost us teachers a great deal of time to come up with and compose; that the load they’re asked to answer we have to check, record, and analyze; that the things they’re required to understand we still have to reformulate into exams.

The paper-filled faculty area has become an automated workplace that almost seems robotic in nature. Teachers are monotonously checking, typing exams, and unconsciously losing several pounds of fats and brain mass trying to go back and forth between checking and typing. There’s no need for diet supplements during these times. If you’re a teacher, all you need to do is to beat the deadlines. Hehehe! Good luck!