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I proctored midterm exam yesterday and two of the classes I proctored were BS Nursing classes. While doing my job as a proctor, I had several thoughts in my mind.
First, I don't miss teaching English to Nursing students. The Nursing classes here are crowded. Each class has 50 students. I was just lucky to have survived in my writing classes for Nursing students. The truth is that I usually end the sem without even being able to label all faces in class with their names. And I have to admit that I only noticed the extremes in class with 50 students. I easily notice the best and the delinquent ones. The average students have never got any chance of being noticed. I also get to notice the best and the worst writers in class. But I remember, when I handled Speech classes for Nursing, I had one section that made me recognize ALL students in class because most, if not all, of them are great speakers! I think that was BSN 2-21 then. Now, they are already junior students and be graduating next semester. I still see some of them in the campus and I'm glad they still say "Hi!" to me whenever they see me :-) I am so sure that all students in that section would be successful as nurses in the future.
Going back to my nostalgic moments while proctoring exam, I also thought of the last time I saw the evil genius in class. I was also proctoring then. I haven't heard about him anymore although I still get a chance to visit his blog. I still think there is no one in the CON that can match his wit and brilliance.

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