How I Became a College Teacher

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Matthew Thiele
EduCreate
Published in
5 min readMar 24, 2022

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Jean-Léon Gérôme, “Diogenes.” Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

A reader recently asked why I decided to become a teacher, and it kind of opened a can of worms. Let’s get the positive stuff out of the way first. Teaching, more than any other profession besides maybe medicine, gives people an opportunity to make a positive difference in the lives of others every day. The psychic rewards for that are tremendous. It…

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Matthew Thiele
EduCreate

Teacher. Satirist. Scholar. Published in Slackjaw, Points in Case, McSweeney’s, Ben Jonson Journal, and elsewhere. Definitely not a representative of GSU.