I am in the office now at midnight trying to convince myself that it's worth it to grade my students' essay exams, despite the fact that they'll resent the fact that they should be graded at all; they somehow believe that if the question at all asks for an opinion on their part they are entitled to an automatic A. I am trying to convince myself that I should read the articles that were assigned despite the fact that they won't want to talk about them and don't care. I have failed them: I was lazy and arrogant. I didn't put enough work into commenting on their earlier quizzes, I didn't prepare enough for discussion sections to help them interact with the material in a meaningful way, I couldn't answer their questions when they bothered to ask them, they don't care about what I think because they've seen and directly experienced my failure, and many of them judge me for it; I can't really blame them since I do too.

God, do I hate the end of the semester.