Well, one of my two "problem people" is working with another faculty member; HE will be the one to iron out the problems.

The second problem person signed up for the summer class, didn't tell me, didn't make an effort to speak to me, and even claimed NOT TO KNOW who was "in charge" of the class. (What? So you expect the faculty member in charge to come and find you? Which is ultimately what I did, though fortunately it didn't have to involve too much detective work on my part).

It irritates me how there are a few students who seem to have been so coddled - these are college students, remember, most of them are around 20 - that they think everything that happens to them, needs to be directed by a faculty member.

Look: if you are signed up for an 'arranged' class, and you don't know who's teaching it (and it's, apparently, not printed on your schedule), you go to the department chair or the secretary and ASK. And then you go talk to the professor.

You don't wait for the prof to come to you. For arranged classes we may never know who's signed up for them unless they either come to us or unless we get a note from the Registrar going, "Hey, is this person yours?"

I'm doubly irritated because of this individual's attitude - he acted as if it were MY fault he hadn't met with anyone.

No, it isn't. Especially since I am doing this arranged class as an unpaid overload this summer, doing it out of the goodness of my heart and willingness to see people get graduated without having to take a whole extra semester.

Don't bite the person who's helping you.

That's my free life lesson to all of you today - probably none of you lovely people need it, but maybe you could pass it on to the youngsters in your life. Don't act all huffy at someone who's going out of their way a little for you, just because they didn't go out of their way MORE. Don't snap at someone who's doing something extra just because you expected that they'd do even more than the extra they already did.