tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post6681449301046181070..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: I won't post another of these, but this is shameful. I've found pages and pages of this.... From Nick. Sorry.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-487065480951933632016-08-26T19:03:32.682-04:002016-08-26T19:03:32.682-04:00We're all suckers here, Nick.We're all suckers here, Nick.Great Lakes Gretahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08101613060478193833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-30018243792258252992016-08-26T10:09:34.704-04:002016-08-26T10:09:34.704-04:00Not only do I keep my students for the entire firs...Not only do I keep my students for the entire first session, but they actually have to produce a short piece of writing that counts in the overall scheme of things. They are not happy about it. I don't care. I want them to understand from the get-go that this is not nursery school (who's old enough to remember when that was what preschool was called?) and I am not a babysitter. <br />Great Lakes Gretahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08101613060478193833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-80753556371363284652016-08-26T10:07:29.088-04:002016-08-26T10:07:29.088-04:00I love you, Ben. I want you to know that. I love you, Ben. I want you to know that. Great Lakes Gretahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08101613060478193833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-75342552524741796712016-08-24T16:09:06.789-04:002016-08-24T16:09:06.789-04:00You presented facts and people got offended. That...You presented facts and people got offended. That's nothing to feel bad about.Eric Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00843385029998374248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-86046454405644440922016-08-24T14:44:16.373-04:002016-08-24T14:44:16.373-04:00I was on Twitter today. I searched "professor...I was on Twitter today. I searched "professor let us out." It was so depressing. 50 minutes early. Hour early. Everyone happy. Good student evals at some point I'm assuming. <br /><br />Am I sucker for working all semester?Nicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-56774436394735858442016-08-24T12:18:10.370-04:002016-08-24T12:18:10.370-04:00To be fair, I usually miss 1 day of class a semest...To be fair, I usually miss 1 day of class a semester due to family emergency, illness, or academic conference. I don't think that's excessive: roughly 1 class out of 50, or 2%. There are 8 million college students in the US alone, so you would expect about 16,000 of them to have their first class cancelled for legitimate reasons.<br /><br />Still annoying as fuck though.Three Sigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10822893039310439770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-62572263311304843462016-08-24T05:34:20.220-04:002016-08-24T05:34:20.220-04:00Hilarious. As one of my astute colleagues told me,...Hilarious. As one of my astute colleagues told me, "It's called 'tenure'". ROFLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-91666305072387267552016-08-24T00:44:22.657-04:002016-08-24T00:44:22.657-04:00I missed the first day of class once and wasn'...I missed the first day of class once and wasn't able to give advance notice because about thirty minutes before my first class was about to start, I experienced sharp lower abdominal pain, was rushed to the emergency room, and ended up having a kidney stone. That really sucked.<br /><br />I also had to cancel the first day of class a couple of years ago because I was still out of town that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36040613418212158012016-08-23T23:46:57.568-04:002016-08-23T23:46:57.568-04:00Amen. Most of these tweets indicate that the prof...Amen. Most of these tweets indicate that the prof didn't notify the class that it was cancelled. Too many to chalk up to snowflakery. I've cancelled my fair share of classes, but I've always notified the students. And I don't know of any adjunct faculty who'd do this, their contract renewal depends too much on the student evaluations.Prof Poopieheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997969128824319914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-38175870602222079932016-08-23T21:52:41.070-04:002016-08-23T21:52:41.070-04:00Myth, Judge Judy is a wise philosopher! And you&#...Myth, Judge Judy is a wise philosopher! And you're spot on about not admitting they got a message or saw a note. The email can be a way to cover one's backside and we can hope some of them actually read the damn thing.Perplexed Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-83097793588545740182016-08-23T20:44:41.687-04:002016-08-23T20:44:41.687-04:00Nick, the complainers can go fuck themselves. We a...Nick, the complainers can go fuck themselves. We all know colleagues who would do this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-49441098321378047642016-08-23T17:39:30.846-04:002016-08-23T17:39:30.846-04:00I'm not offended,though I certainly am surpris...I'm not offended,though I certainly am surprised. But I'm inclined to accept that, whatever the oddities of the sample may be, proffies who are MIA on the first day of class are an actual phenomenon (because what incentive would students -- or anybody -- have to lie about this?). Given how much we generalize here about students from samples of one or two, pointing out this twitter trend Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-73942417527970528662016-08-23T17:26:33.430-04:002016-08-23T17:26:33.430-04:00from Nick
Fab has sent me a number of emails (wit...<i>from Nick</i><br /><br />Fab has sent me a number of emails (with no names) and I'm just really shocked. I'm not saying that all faculty are lazy; I'm saying that there's SOME evidence that students are going to class the first day to find out professors are late, cancelling officially, or not showing at all. I've found HUNDREDS of these on Twitter.<br /><br />I mean no College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36299029327329715862016-08-23T17:13:48.283-04:002016-08-23T17:13:48.283-04:00I'm also (a) a bit surprised by the amount of ...I'm also (a) a bit surprised by the amount of religious language showing up in some of these tweets and (b) wondering whether some of these students were in the wrong room (even if other students were there, it's possible that the room assignment changed, and the other half of the class, and the professor, were in the newly-assigned room. Or the professor didn't get the message aboutContingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-71164166969972116722016-08-23T17:11:00.983-04:002016-08-23T17:11:00.983-04:00I do this sort of thing mostly in my nightmares (a...I do this sort of thing mostly in my nightmares (actually, in my nightmares, I realize in December that there's a class that I'm supposed to have been teaching since August. And that I haven't prepared an exam. And that I'm standing naked in the middle of the quad contemplating this all.) I am, however, reluctant to throw stones, since, after many years of teaching different Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-24052539874474835352016-08-23T16:52:35.288-04:002016-08-23T16:52:35.288-04:00You know, Peter, back when I was teaching I often ...You know, Peter, back when I was teaching I often called the office to have them post a note outside class *and* sent an e-mail to the class (once such things were feasible via Blackboard). Students often ignored both. Or the office never posted a note. Or some jackass ripped the note off the door in a temper tantrum.<br /><br />I once had a student come to me in a huff because he was at classThe_Mythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621186404597424842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-68852847566884252742016-08-23T16:38:47.285-04:002016-08-23T16:38:47.285-04:00If a professor has a valid reason for not showing ...If a professor has a valid reason for not showing up to class, (s)he still needs to email the class in advance if possible. Just not showing up isn't acceptable unless there's an emergency.Perplexed Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-81292402781000232082016-08-23T16:04:43.608-04:002016-08-23T16:04:43.608-04:00I usually get emailed complaints about these posts...I usually get emailed complaints about these posts. Kimmie and Terry both did them and personally I like the information to be shared, but let me voice for folks who do not want to comment on here: Some profs think these posts are unfair to professors who may have valid reasons for not showing up to class.College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.com