Here at the end of all things

I have four days left of student teaching. Four more days until school is finished. I also have four days left at my work, but that is another post. I almost lost my mind back around week five, but I made it and I feel like the whole school experience has taught me a lot, even if most of it wasn't intended. Here is a sample of what the last 18 months has left me with:

1. School food hasn't changed much in the last 25 years.

2. I think the secret of surviving any higher learning is mastering the 4 to 1 principle; for every five pages you need to write four pages of filler for every one page of content. It's kinda like the 90 to 1 principle of prime time game shows.

3. There are curse words in some fourth grade books.

4. Fourth graders don't handle curse words with much maturity

5. You don't have to pay on student loans as long as you are in college. I think 90% of doctors were just people that needed a little more time to come up with their loan money.

6. A human can run on 4 and 1/2 hours of sleep for 12 weeks straight without any adverse affects (except for the invisible talking chairs).

7. Conference calls are a great time to catch up on blogging.

8. For the second time in my life graduating from college has resulted in the loss of a job.

9. The chairs are troubled by the recent economic crisis.

10. There's a lot of money to be made it writing textbooks, not much in teaching. So, teaching someone how to teach is more profitable than teaching someone how to learn. Did I miss something?