>The easiest fix is to make office hours available on the same day that assignments are due, so that I can be available when students are working on the assignment.

Probably not a great idea. You're going to be overbooked when all of your students show up last minute.

It seems unreasonable to expect someone to both be an expert in mathematics as well be some great story teller

Aren't story points (estimates) usually part of scrum?

Scrum is usually more flexible than most people realize.

The only one of these that Scratch might make easier is the Space Invaders game

Pomodoro made me hate working

Adderall

This is the only answer I believe in this thread.

I remember it from Silicon Valley when the carver asks for Adderall so that he could stay up for two days straight.

I prefer Vyvanse for that long, slow release... no mid-afternoon crash ;)

Valve - https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewE...

My understanding is that you only have to see the doctor in person once, and then can do telemedicine after that. Still a pain, but not as bad.

There was no plan B. Failure was not an option, it was only a matter of how long it would take to get there.

Heh - seems like we had a similar path...

I ended up making a lot of coffee and doing a lot of crap work for the best coders in the companies I worked for, just so I could look over their shoulders and learn :-D