Resurrecting the professor

Today I am resurrecting my professor self. After my two semester stint at teaching 3 sections of the same class three times a week about a year ago - I said never again. Those kids wore me down and left me jaded. I had little hope for the future of college kids - unless the new official language of America was going to be IM lingo. But, given the fact that I really, really dislike not doing well at something I decided that I would give one more go at teaching to college kids. Oh did I mention that the class I teach is an Intro level nutrition course that counts towards a mandatory wellness core credit? That's the mentality I'm up against - give me my A for this and let's move on.

So today I will besiege upon my class the new Beth style of teaching - I will still teach the necessary objectives that have to met with this course but I will do it with flare and will take it beyond this is what a "carb, protein, fat, etc is and this is what it does and this is what happens when you eat too much or too little of it." My students will hopefully leave the semester demanding change in our current agriculture system for providing food; they will know how to be healthy without having to 'diet'; they will look back on their college career and say damn I learned a lot from that crazy food professor.