Tired Professor Syndrome

 

Professor Pela used to be good, old students said

But we are yet to see him perform

He’s in almost every committee

He doesn’t mentor any one much, not anymore

Looks like he’s counting the days to retirement

But he has a while to go, I think

Is he burned out? Is he?

 

Don’t know

He has time to gossip

He has time to give some student the fear of God –

And these are students who already fear the Almighty.

Well, he still knows the stuff if he cares to dust up his notes

But he can’t be bothered, he has turned to a historian, a hundred percent

In our engineering design class

 

I once heard him say he can’t stand undergraduates

He doesn’t do much research anymore

His graduate students have no shepherd

They know they’re on their own

But his name still brings grants

Only that another does the work

And he stamps his name on the product

Faster than any other could spell “Fast”

 

What has happened to him, Professor Pela?

“What has happened” you ask?

I hear he has TPS

Who? What? Enh? TP who?

TPS –Tired Professor Syndrome

That’s the Syndrome of Tired Professors,

Professors who are tired but not retired.

Hmm, TPS –Tired Professor Syndrome