8:30am – Morning before Class
Professor Milani never leaves her house without a cup of coffee in hand. What kind of coffee? Well, she starts her morning with a cup of NESCAFE CLASICO Instant Dark Roast Coffee and heads out the door. Professor Milani has an hour-long drive to work, spending her time in the car staying informed about what’s happening in the world by listening to her favorite YouTube channel, Democracy Now.
9:30am – Arrives on campus
Professor Milani strides onto campus with her purse and rolling backpack in hand as she heads to ASC 150 to teach her first class, Intro to Psych.
11:15am – after class + Lunch
After class, professor Milani has about an hour between her first and second classes. She walks to her office in LRC where she realizes she forgot to pack a lunch. She walks to the food truck and orders salad and some watermelon. Once she gets back to her office, she has her weekly lunch with Professor Lucy Capuano, a fellow psychology professor here at Ventura College, and Mariana Branda-Gherardi, a Sociology professor at Ventura College. In their meetings, they catch up on their busy schedules and classes.
1pm – Next class
After her hour and a half lunch break, Professor Milani walks down to the library where she prints out the lecture notes for her next class. She walks back to ASC 150 where she teaches intro to psych again. She greets students while they walk and begins lecturing. She starts lecturing while cracking jokes along the way to make the lecture fun, engaging and entertaining. After class, she stays 15 minutes longer to talk with some students and answer any questions they may have.
2:30 pm – After class
Professor Milani walks to her car to start her hour and a half drive home. On her drive home she listens to more news and updates herself on what is going on in the world. She stops to pick up her son from daycare and heads the rest of the way home.
4:00 pm – Rest of the day
As soon as she gets home, she changes and heads to her boxing class. Somehow even in her busy schedule, she finds time in her day to do something for herself which is very important when you have a schedule as busy as hers. After her 50-minute boxing class, she goes home, takes a shower and makes dinner for her two kids under 4. After dinner, she puts her 1-year-old to sleep and gets right back to work. She grades papers, creates lecture PowerPoint slides, and creates assignments until 11pm, then goes to sleep to wake up early the next day and work again. Following Professor Milani around for a day has made me realize that a professor’s work doesn’t stop after the classroom. Professor Milani has taught me work ethic and to use the laziness that I might feel to fuel me to be the person that I want to be. She is someone that I look up to every day and hope one day I can be as successful as her. She has always shown me a level of respect that I now have for professors. The amount of work they do inside and outside the classroom is extremely underappreciated,and I hope readers will realize that, too, as they read this.
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