I just got a sadmaking phone call from a student...I'm not at liberty (I think) to give details, but it just blows my mind the sad/bad/violent situations some people have to deal with while going to college.

When I was a TA I once had a student who asked me if she ever missed class (without letting me know she was missing first) if I would call the police because it would possibly mean her violent ex-boyfriend had violated the restraining order she had out.

In some ways I am so much younger than some of the students I teach. And it makes me sad that they have to deal with this junk.