AN ADJUNCT
It was the first day of school, and I was just one time, 8:01 to be exact. I waltzed into the classroom with a coffee and large bag, dressed as a teacher, or faculty member, or adjunct.
“Good morning professor!” The students greeted me.
“Well, students you see, I am not a Professor, I am an adjunct.”
“An adjunct? I thought you were our professor?”
“Well I am, but I am not a professor I am an adjunct. Let me explain.”
I looked up the definition to further elucidate “adjunct, meaning a thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part. In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not structurally affect the remainder of the sentence. Example: In the sentence John helped Bill in Central Park, the phrase in Central Park is an adjunct.
“So we don’t get a real professor?”
“No students, you don’t. You get me, you’re adjunct. “
“Is this like a substitute teacher?”
“No students, it’s not.”
“Well, I want a real professor!”
”Students, I am real .”
“No you’re not a professor, you’re an adjunct.” A colleague walked by, confused.
