Trying not to lose my sh*t

So, for the sake of anonymity, I am going to try not to share too many personal details about myself (we'll see how long that lasts!) but I will tell you that I am a college professor. I teach a foreign language, which is really fun and cool, and I usually love my job. My students are ok - I don't teach at an Ivy league school or anything, but they are usually pretty good. But I have got a group right now in one class that is just driving me batty. This is the second semester in a row that most of them have been with me, and they love me. But the problem is, they have lost all interest in learning. And they don't seem to have any grasp on what it means to be a college student. They don't take any responsibility for their own learning. Recently, a few of them have just been sitting there in class with their eyes glazed over, staring straight ahead. And I'm not a boring teacher. But they have just checked out. Before today's class I told them that we were just going to review, and that I wouldn't be teaching anything in particular, but would answer any questions about anything we have done all semester or would explain anything they asked me to, because we have our final exam during next class. So the prime offender, who just got back a test today on which she received a whopping 37%, sits there writing a note to her friend. And then says, "Is this all we are going to do today, because if I woulda' known, I wouldn't have come to class." WTF. Like I need to deal with this sh*it this week, of all weeks. I almost wanted to cry. They think they have these difficult lives with all their studying that they have to fit in with their partying and rushing for fraternities and sororities (something I have always abhorred, by the way - apologies to any of you reading who did that). They think the whole world revolves around them and their little lives, with absolutely no concept of what other people in the world have to go through. OK, rant over. For now. I'm just so glad that I only have one more class with this class, and then their final presentations. I guess this is another good reason for keeping this blog anonymous - so I can rant about my students and not get fired.