tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post5962925581650263866..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: How Hopeful. How Naive.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-14836103483877094032012-02-21T23:14:16.839-05:002012-02-21T23:14:16.839-05:00That gave me the best belly laugh I've had in ...That gave me the best belly laugh I've had in a while.Frog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-38170863970659220172012-02-21T23:10:02.690-05:002012-02-21T23:10:02.690-05:00I was the same way, although later than the mid 90...I was the same way, although later than the mid 90s. So hopeful, so open to sharing all of my contacts. None of it got used except as outlets for students to explain why they couldn't do the work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-30715928875507467052012-02-21T20:04:13.511-05:002012-02-21T20:04:13.511-05:00Perhaps this was a leftover plot to bring scientif...Perhaps this was a leftover plot to bring scientific research in the US to a grinding halt, perpetrated by some isolated KGB cell that hadn't yet heard of the fall of the Soviet Union? We'll have to ask Strelnikov. <br /><br />To be fair, there's also a temptation to have students interview their professors, to which I (and other writing-program colleagues) have succumbed on Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-76487362562056581192012-02-21T19:58:40.253-05:002012-02-21T19:58:40.253-05:00Ah, innocence. In the mid-90s, I was still puttin...Ah, innocence. In the mid-90s, I was still putting my home (landline, of course) phone number on my syllabi, so as to be as available as possible. That stopped when I got an irate, vaguely threatening early-morning phone call from the father of a student I had just turned in for plagiarism, and realized that he could easily find my home address. Email does have its advantages.Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-61121477772954783672012-02-21T16:05:10.358-05:002012-02-21T16:05:10.358-05:00At least the wide-eyed notion hasn't occurred ...At least the wide-eyed notion hasn't occurred to him that the Internet might be used by students to send requests for help to hundreds of top researchers in the field. As Neil Postman observed, that's just what those top researchers were wanting: every kid in American sending them e-mail demanding they do their homework for them, and instantly, to boot. It never did seem to occur to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-53511071956591325212012-02-21T14:12:31.691-05:002012-02-21T14:12:31.691-05:00Or as Urban Dictionary now puts it, "A vast a...Or as Urban Dictionary now puts it, "A vast array of pornography and advertisements"Irritated Isishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15415532947857584043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-60255591111621719512012-02-21T13:39:34.843-05:002012-02-21T13:39:34.843-05:00The Internet: "It's a series of tubes. An...The Internet: "It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."Dr. Crankyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01544814759723000405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-11328695412375782132012-02-21T13:39:22.850-05:002012-02-21T13:39:22.850-05:00Considering how well this describes my job teachin...Considering how well this describes my job teaching online, I'd say you're a bloody clairvoyant. They do submit online, and it does take me about 5 minutes to grade/comment on their work. You stared down the future, Cal.<br /><br />Until the very last line: "it can't do anything but help." Oh, how cute. We were all so bright-eyed back then.Academic Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07086078244493768565noreply@blogger.com