Paul's escapades with his classroom change (the ceiling was leaking something fierce) were also my escapades, because it wasn't enough for the university to have us share an office -- we also teach in the same room at different times. Some of my students, confronted with the note on the door explaining the nature of the problem (ceiling falling in) and the solution (go to this other room for your class), simply sat down in the hallway and gave up. I kid you not. I sent out a dragnet to locate the hopeless, and we all eventually reconvened in the hostile territory of the Engineering Physics building, where the tables and chairs are bolted to the floor, and only one ceiling tile was sagging and water-stained.
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