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I really feel like I'm going to cry. I have never had a course go this poorly before, and I just don't know how to fix it. It's a five day course, and we're already on day 5 material (today being day 3). I've already used up some time-wasters, I'm giving them long breaks and long lunches, finishing early, and it's just not helping. And today, my server has decided it just won't work anymore, and several students are having similar problems. It's like everything is conspiring against me. I want to go walk in front of a bus.

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Yeah, I wasn't being very detailed on the issues. It's a course on UNIX that recently expanded from 3 to 5 days, but really didn't add enough material. Also, Red Hat announced yesterday that they're discontinuing support for RH Linux 9, which is the platform we're using in the course, so everyone and their dog around the entire freaking planet is busy pounding their servers for updates and shit, rather than leaving my class to be the only ones. :-)

I've been writing labs like mad trying to find more material that's still useful, but it's just stressful and tiring, is all. I hate courseware that pretends to be something it's not. We're going to replace the books with better ones, once I find better ones, but sheesh. It shouldn't be this hard to pass on knowledge, I mean really.