tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post471254603095258666..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Tell me a story...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-71590391212445424322010-08-26T15:51:32.596-04:002010-08-26T15:51:32.596-04:00Case A) In my second year of teaching, my most ann...Case A) In my second year of teaching, my most annoying student came in to my classroom with his entire right hand and arm in a cast. He put his books on his desk then came over to me to hand me a doctor's note with a smug grin. "Here's my note. I broke my hand. You have to give me an extension."<br /><br />I looked at the note, which was legit, and then back at him, "What Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-77132268680766142812010-08-24T02:19:37.092-04:002010-08-24T02:19:37.092-04:00Jesus Christ, WhatLadder! If I wasn't sure yo...Jesus Christ, WhatLadder! If I wasn't sure you were in the Canada, I'd think we taught at the same school in the USA!!!<br /><br />Great web-site, and, yet again, many stories that parallel my experiences too. Yet another reminder that:<br /><br />1 - I am not hallucinating about my students' bad attitudes, juvenile behavior, and utter incompetence.<br /><br />2 - Students suck all Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-38396002730224103942010-08-24T00:57:59.436-04:002010-08-24T00:57:59.436-04:00Whatladder, you sucked me in. Your blog is great....Whatladder, you sucked me in. Your blog is great.Frog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-64742903980717377752010-08-23T22:26:53.518-04:002010-08-23T22:26:53.518-04:00Going to interrupt Froddy's dick measuring wit...Going to interrupt Froddy's dick measuring with a tale of comeuppance I found very satisfying. <br /><br />Just over a year ago, I had a student who chose to interpret permission to put "a few notes" on her exam handout as "write an entire essay, shrink it to 6pt and cut it into strips and glue it on to the white space on the handout."<br /><br />She was appalled - WhatLadderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11603489349164511704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-50126881952556239902010-08-23T01:38:24.148-04:002010-08-23T01:38:24.148-04:00> It shows you're neither delusional nor
&...> It shows you're neither delusional nor <br />> hopped up on Ed S'Kool-Aid. ;) <br /><br />It it ever came to that, so help me, I'd kill myself. But then, if it really did come to that, I wouldn't, because I'd be a different person. Sometimes I wish I could be that stupid: the world must be a wonderful place for these people, doesn't it seem?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-50202567518907356342010-08-23T01:24:56.910-04:002010-08-23T01:24:56.910-04:00Dear MPE,
Isn't a willingness to correct mist...Dear MPE,<br /><br />Isn't a willingness to correct mistakes a vital part of scientific method? If perfection is passing here, I'd better go: no less than Klaatu admitted he wasn't.<br /><br />Also, didn't Walter tell us that if it's small, he'd be saying it's small? It's not nice to gloat, but a smeghead is a smeghead, and needs to be dealt with accordingly, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-86028346832407855752010-08-22T23:46:24.154-04:002010-08-22T23:46:24.154-04:00Oh, Froddy, you revised this comment 2 times just ...Oh, Froddy, you revised this comment 2 times just to say the same thing? And still included the scolding about the buzz words meant to distract from the buried lead?<br /><br />*tsk-tsk*<br /><br />I'll forgive you, though, because it's impossible to take a scolding about indulging in schadenfreude from a person who describes previous students as weasels, dickheads, smegheads, and twerpsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-60422159647950433582010-08-22T22:59:15.774-04:002010-08-22T22:59:15.774-04:00Stories of justice sound fine to me, but there'...Stories of justice sound fine to me, but there's a difference between justice and revenge. Didn't Odysseus come to regret having taunted a bad guy he defeated, the cyclops? I may have been just a physics and astronomy major, but I actually did the readings in my Comp. Lit. class. It's not nice to gloat over someone's misfortunes, even if they richly deserve it. That said, it Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-64701869863332062152010-08-22T22:24:24.104-04:002010-08-22T22:24:24.104-04:00The list of most popular posts is simply the 5 pos...The list of most popular posts is simply the 5 posts that had the most pageviews since the CM started. I thought I'd update it from time to time.College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-66041399266971264492010-08-22T21:22:40.395-04:002010-08-22T21:22:40.395-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-53226156443778181442010-08-22T21:19:41.966-04:002010-08-22T21:19:41.966-04:00God, my life is boring. Nothing much here at all b...God, my life is boring. Nothing much here at all but the usual. Let's see...<br /><br />There was the student who never came to my (copious) office hours (I was teaching this course for moving money, coming off my post-doc) and asked me <em>after the final exam</em> whether there was any way he could pass the course 'cause he needed it for medical school. Nope, sez I. <br /><br />There introvert.profhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09042783611716432247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-39649972532779704412010-08-22T20:59:26.853-04:002010-08-22T20:59:26.853-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-38482255480593771202010-08-22T20:20:07.782-04:002010-08-22T20:20:07.782-04:00@ ELS, RYS said the post came at a busy time, so e...@ ELS, RYS said the post came at a busy time, so even my use of ennui wasn't enough to get selected! RE: the favorite posts...maybe they have the most comments? If so, I disapprove of that definition of popularity. Katie's deleted post probably had more comments, but was it popular? I think that's what she wanted to happen anyway.<br /><br />@ Marcia. That sort of behavior would Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-29045308281625570562010-08-22T18:23:05.828-04:002010-08-22T18:23:05.828-04:00Had a total fucktard of a student several years ba...Had a total fucktard of a student several years back. He acted out, talked in class, recycled work from another class and so on. He was smart, but way too sure that he could get away with anything because he was smart. Long story short, he applied to the graduate program in our department in a year when I was on the admissions committee. He had only applied to our program, so sure was he that he Archiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14197015065747868297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-90866302632226655092010-08-22T18:19:15.079-04:002010-08-22T18:19:15.079-04:00Oh, man, where do I start? All of these stories a...Oh, man, where do I start? All of these stories are from grad school. <br /><br />1. I always photocopy exams written in pencil. Yes, I should fail them, but I have my marshmallow side, too. Well, young Eraser Ernie came up to the prof I TA'd for and earnestly complained that I must have been commenting on the wrong essay (!!!) because he had written what I had said he had missed. Lo andPickyHistorianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500487513256575244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-70501707646271598732010-08-22T17:19:05.860-04:002010-08-22T17:19:05.860-04:00I once killed a student. He looked at me the wron...I once killed a student. He looked at me the wrong way. <br /><br />You know what I mean.<br /><br />Anyway, that one act raised the average IQ at my school a tiny bit. And they'll never find the body. So all's good.<br /><br />Next time, maybe I'll go for a fucktard colleague. The student was just too easy and not all that satisfying. The student would have been gone in a coupleSouthern Bubba, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12050992903794385204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-16676764599752546002010-08-22T17:18:57.835-04:002010-08-22T17:18:57.835-04:00I'm pretty much a weenie so far, too. BUT duri...I'm pretty much a weenie so far, too. BUT during my first year of teaching I had a student in a course. . . dim memory. . . a foreign student there for the term. Some drama. . . what was it?. . . anyway, due to various drama (intervention in her suicide attempt and such) she wound up remembering me in a semi-positive manner; Back home she got a degree and a gallery job in her home country andPolar Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09713477095763100821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-24381438005537035662010-08-22T16:35:19.335-04:002010-08-22T16:35:19.335-04:00Happy Birthday MPE!Happy Birthday MPE!Dr. Crankyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01544814759723000405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-15399818623654596652010-08-22T16:28:13.450-04:002010-08-22T16:28:13.450-04:00Well, hmmm. I suspect I am a bit of a weenie. Bu...Well, hmmm. I suspect I am a bit of a weenie. But I did have this kid plagiarize a paper for a course of mine -- downloaded most of it verbatim from the internet, and it was by a leading scholar in the field, and the first thing on his topic when you plugged it into Google. So, whatever, threw him to the Ministry of No Consequences, which takes care of all plagiarism issues. A year later he Frog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-81591482178229159442010-08-22T15:10:45.483-04:002010-08-22T15:10:45.483-04:00who picks the all time posts on the right side of ...who picks the all time posts on the right side of this page? nobody asked me.W.T. Pfefferlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522687306482305195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-1987261116702509172010-08-22T14:50:16.505-04:002010-08-22T14:50:16.505-04:00I can't believe RYS didn't publish it. I m...I can't believe RYS didn't publish it. I mean, you even use the word "ennui."W.T. Pfefferlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07522687306482305195noreply@blogger.com