It was the start of my first day teaching a business technology lab at university. I had a computer station facing about 30 students at the front of the room with the projector screen behind me on the wall.
I was pretty nervous. I stood up to address the class for the first time and put one foot on the wheel of the chair I was just sitting on. I fell flat on my back. I tried to crack a joke about it and no one laughed. Just awkward silence.
It felt like it took the whole semester to recover, in the end they gave me really nice evaluations...
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