Amy Marie
@amy-marie.bsky.social
PhD (as of 2025!) Sociologist. Teacher. Former adjunct. Former social worker. Academic interests: critical pedagogy & social inequalities. Often post about: teaching, sociology, my cats, and beer.
an added perk of going all handwritten this semester - stickers!!! (idc that they’re college students, lol. even adults like stickers)
Amy Marie@amy-marie.bsky.social · 3w agohell yeah!!! i’m also going all in-class hand written homework and blue books this semester!
that student stayed after class yesterday. he asked if i could re-explain some things, as he is still struggling with his memory post-concussion. he mentioned this is his fourth concussion. FOURTH?!??? yes, fourth. and he is only taking one semester off from football. HOW is this allowed?????…
Amy Marie@amy-marie.bsky.social · 3w agoomfg - i got a second notice for another student today! that’s TWO students already with concussions and it’s only day one of the semester. (and that’s just out of the students in my classes). smh
randomly posting for a good september :)
eek@pokestarwind.bsky.social · last wk.post something random you’ll have an awful september!
Post a character you think is cool and give no explanation why:
Killing Eve: You Are So Annoying
Alt: Villanelle! A scene from Killing Eve: You Are So Annoying
static.klipy.com
Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛@shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 2w agoPost a character you think is cool and give no explanation why:
our HR person/my current student emailed me to say she’d fixed the issue for my insurance. and then emailed me to say she’d missed that an assignment was due for class this past week and asked if i’d re-open it for her. this is so bizarre. lol
Amy Marie@amy-marie.bsky.social · 2w agonot me having to call my insurance company because of a denied claim and when i told them my birthday, they’re like “that is incorrect” 😶 TURNS OUT my employer incorrectly entered my birth year so now i gotta reach out to the HR person - who is also currently my student! - to fix her mistake 🙃
y’all. i just heard the same person say the following to a class. a grown man ranting about “women’s time of the month” to a room of 18-20 year olds (and in a class on deviance 🙃). WEIRDO behavior. not to mention the biological essentialism and heteronormativity 🥴🥴🥴
Amy Marie@amy-marie.bsky.social · 5mo agooverheard a colleague telling a class of students: “You guys are soft as a generation, because my generation, we got beatings,” and then proceeded with an example. like 🥴🥴🥴 wow, yes you must be so much better off now, as a whole adult dumping decades old trauma onto a bunch of 18 year olds.
a student came to my office hours today. i asked her what i could help her with and she said, “Nothin. I just wanted to hang out with you.” lol. she’s a junior and she’s making a point to visit her professors during office hours to get to know them outside of class. we had a nice chat 🙂
i used the covid pandemic as an example in my intro to sociology course today - i asked my students what grade in school they were in spring 2020 and most of them said 5th grade 🫠🫠🫠 that feels like it should be mathematically impossible
just got out of class. heard some chatter in the hallway - “she died!” - and i was completely unprepared to see who it was ☹️
i just received an email from a student that comprised of a very long subject line and no additional content. lol.
not me having to call my insurance company because of a denied claim and when i told them my birthday, they’re like “that is incorrect” 😶 TURNS OUT my employer incorrectly entered my birth year so now i gotta reach out to the HR person - who is also currently my student! - to fix her mistake 🙃
hell yeah!!! i’m also going all in-class hand written homework and blue books this semester!
Shabana Mir@shabana.bsky.social · 3w agoMore please. All social science Core classes at UChicago will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students and professors. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
yooo. one of the HR reps from my school is taking my Intro to Sociology course. 👀 (i actually remember meeting her during my interview and her telling me she was taking courses.) i dunno how i feel about her taking my class though (it is an online class btw.) guess we’ll find out! 🙃
ugh. any potato is good. but if i had to choose, HOME FRIES
Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 3w agoSettle a dispute: If you could only eat potatoes in one form for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
omfg - i got a second notice for another student today! that’s TWO students already with concussions and it’s only day one of the semester. (and that’s just out of the students in my classes). smh
Amy Marie@amy-marie.bsky.social · 3w agoschool year doesn’t even start til tomorrow. and already a student concussion.
survived day one! 🎉 (even though i still don’t have all my syllabi done, lol) had my intro class today - they were rowdy! but it went super well (just had to stop a few times to bring them down) but compared to my intro class last fall that was CRICKETS every class, i’ll take rowdy over silent.
school year doesn’t even start til tomorrow. and already a student concussion.
Amy Marie@amy-marie.bsky.social · 7mo agoone of my students has a concussion. it’s wild teaching at a place with a high rate of student athletes because this happened a couple times last semester, so seems it will be a regular thing ☹️
last year, getting ready for my first year as faculty, i bought a dressier pair of docs. decided to make new shoes a back-to-school tradition. look at these pink platforms i found! 🤩 (perhaps pushing boundaries of professional 🤷🏻♀️ but i found em used at a great price and could not, not get them!)
one syllabus done and moodle course ready. four to go. by tuesday 🫠
survived day one of all-day faculty meetings 🙃 got day two tomorrow 🫠
the semester starts next week and i don’t have any of my syllabi done yet 🫠