tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post6827350649857845453..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: A weekend thirsty from Eating Low Salt. Dumbest thing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-40387560525491248592016-03-30T22:01:59.902-04:002016-03-30T22:01:59.902-04:00I say something quite similar in response: "D...I say something quite similar in response: "Do you HAVE to know this? Do you HAVE to read the textbook? No, you don't HAVE to know this. No, you don't HAVE to read the textbook. You don't HAVE to do ANYTHING. You are completely free to do NOTHING AT ALL in this course. But best of luck on the exam, if your intent is to get a good grade."Prof Poopieheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997969128824319914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-7028936019690188202016-03-29T14:44:03.510-04:002016-03-29T14:44:03.510-04:00That post just gave me brain cancer. Well done.That post just gave me brain cancer. Well done.Three Sigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10822893039310439770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-4023897023088582202016-03-29T14:42:58.847-04:002016-03-29T14:42:58.847-04:00Better: "No, of course you don't. Unless ...Better: "No, of course you don't. Unless you want an A, of course. But no one is force-feeding you."Three Sigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10822893039310439770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-68904212017929457582016-03-29T12:11:02.224-04:002016-03-29T12:11:02.224-04:00Asking during the last lecture before an exam &quo...Asking during the last lecture before an exam "Do we have to know this?" Nah. I'm just up here entertaining myself.Finnfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02282896112304604873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-20662917330880004382016-03-28T19:57:24.657-04:002016-03-28T19:57:24.657-04:00That... oh, wow. That is a thing. That... oh, wow. That is a thing. Madame Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03777676382203865143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-58007815275916399342016-03-28T19:55:39.642-04:002016-03-28T19:55:39.642-04:00"This is important, please write it down.&quo..."This is important, please write it down." I say this fairly often, and will pause my lecture to let them get their paper and pen out. I also switched to flipped instruction for most lectures: they have to watch the lecture (which the LMS tracks for me) to earn participation points. Some of them are watching and getting it, but the few who do not show their ignorance in class. Madame Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03777676382203865143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-59292483717126208742016-03-28T16:48:47.366-04:002016-03-28T16:48:47.366-04:00Good luck enforcing that. I never had much luck, ...Good luck enforcing that. I never had much luck, even when it was college policy.<br />Eric Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00843385029998374248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-21031833685122663922016-03-27T23:17:14.411-04:002016-03-27T23:17:14.411-04:00Why are they there?
Bong hits.Why are they there?<br /><br />Bong hits.Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-18341920106650280542016-03-27T21:18:34.568-04:002016-03-27T21:18:34.568-04:001) Thinking that higher education means take the t...1) Thinking that higher education means take the textbook, summarize, rinse, repeat. The concept of analysis or, heaven forbid, integration of student obtained scholarly sources is simply foreign.<br /><br />2) Utter Random grammar and structure's too witch they're is no rime or reason two and that, of coarse, is never corrected not even when they loose More & Moar Points. <br /><br Aware and Scaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14700345349806280657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-75038361695199334032016-03-27T17:39:23.903-04:002016-03-27T17:39:23.903-04:00Similar thing here, except about 2/3 the way throu...Similar thing here, except about 2/3 the way through the exam, the student suddenly went from getting about 2 of 3 questions right to 1 of 10. Yup, his Scantron for the last third matched his neighbor's perfectly, and you know the rest.Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-19943144630632495872016-03-27T17:30:13.705-04:002016-03-27T17:30:13.705-04:00Something my students did might initially be class...Something my students did might initially be classified as just inconsiderate, but it was also dumb because they could have easily thought of the repercussions and acted differently.<br /><br />Let's say we have a quiz for the last 15 minutes of class. After about 5 minutes, students begin to get up to turn in their finished quizzes and vacate the room. Well, apparently, when these students Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-67313251955322934542016-03-27T13:20:15.731-04:002016-03-27T13:20:15.731-04:00Student copied off of another student during a mid...Student copied off of another student during a midterm with MC questions - with a different version, and so totally different marking scheme. His green-coloured exam book pages and the other student's purple-coloured pages should have been a warning, along with every page being plastered with stuff like "Version III". As a result, for the 1st time EVAR, I had this student who got Prof Poopieheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997969128824319914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-13675684892987076332016-03-27T09:50:25.360-04:002016-03-27T09:50:25.360-04:00Re #2, I wonder if they get that from the design o...Re #2, I wonder if they get that from the design of web pages, many of which are "decorated" with prominent quotes or excerpts. Except they aren't random, and their connection to the text is obvious or (hopefully usually) adressed in the text. Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-89713150830111803052016-03-27T09:19:50.873-04:002016-03-27T09:19:50.873-04:00When this one happened to me, they didn't even...When this one happened to me, they didn't even change the name, and were copying from others in the same class. Unfortunately, the rigamarole involved in officially proving that they cheated was far more time consuming than actually shooting fish in a barrel.Rosencrantz Andor Guildensternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05095512139776536635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-51538589373481867712016-03-27T00:43:35.526-04:002016-03-27T00:43:35.526-04:00Students equate success with whether or not I like...Students equate success with whether or not I like their project. Yes, I like work that is well done. But it gets a good grade because it is well done, not because I like it. I don't have to agree with the student's opinion, but their premise should be well stated and supported. It's college, not high school. Stop asking me if I like it and just do a good job. <br /><br />As for not Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-75661749147453671402016-03-26T23:05:49.624-04:002016-03-26T23:05:49.624-04:00When taking a multiple choice exam, with choices o...When taking a multiple choice exam, with choices only from A to D, sometimes filling in Scantron bubbles for E, or even F.Prof Poopieheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997969128824319914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-51013425421897242692016-03-26T20:31:37.286-04:002016-03-26T20:31:37.286-04:00My current one is Dandy Randy, who made life easy ...My current one is Dandy Randy, who made life easy for himself and handed in a lab report he found on the 'net from two years ago. He even managed to erase the name of the original student and insert his own in the PDF. What he missed was that there were screenshots of computer screens that included the date and time - from two years ago.Suzy from Square Statehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03085856052108645578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-67086213140917245252016-03-26T19:51:12.159-04:002016-03-26T19:51:12.159-04:00Picking just one . . . wow, that's a challenge...Picking just one . . . wow, that's a challenge. So I'll ignore the instructions and make a list.<br />1. Ignoring the instructions. I ask them to write a five page paper analyzing a text on Victorian Hamster Cultivation, and they write me a three page paper on Edwardian Caviomorph Training. <br />2. Plopping random quotations into a paper without any connection to what they're Professor Chiltepinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10087270705989845484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-45452739943279707252016-03-26T18:21:09.177-04:002016-03-26T18:21:09.177-04:00At least it's not a sheep!At least it's not a sheep!EC1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13414931249618049097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-26008699945792637612016-03-26T17:50:41.119-04:002016-03-26T17:50:41.119-04:00A really strange thing that some of my students do...A really strange thing that some of my students do when they take their first quiz, which is not timed, is that if they finish the quiz quickly, they'll just sit there with it on their desk, sometimes turning the paper over, and not get up and turn it in to me. I've always found this behavior strange. Isn't the "natural" thing to do, when you finish your quiz or test, to J Profhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08070000686133103346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-64590395117337075322016-03-26T17:12:54.751-04:002016-03-26T17:12:54.751-04:00Sometimes they poke the bear.Sometimes they poke the bear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-44901002939539180672016-03-26T16:48:05.671-04:002016-03-26T16:48:05.671-04:00My program trains students for a profession that r...My program trains students for a profession that requires them to pass a comprehensive exam before they can be licensed to render service. Many of our students schedule the comp for soon after their last finals of their last term. Then, they slack off in their courses while they try to cram the entire several years' of curriculum into a few weeks of review., and as a result, some fail one or Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-18381276031620455622016-03-26T16:04:20.839-04:002016-03-26T16:04:20.839-04:00Oh, welcome to my world as a CC comp grinder. I e...Oh, welcome to my world as a CC comp grinder. I eat that shit sandwich daily.The Gognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-39205698307807075432016-03-26T16:02:53.164-04:002016-03-26T16:02:53.164-04:00Yes, yes, yes on the no-notes students. I've ...Yes, yes, yes on the no-notes students. I've really been hammering them on it this semester--with a little results. Maybe the lesson will stick with one or two--VICTORY!The Gognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-18400660562115717392016-03-26T15:53:28.610-04:002016-03-26T15:53:28.610-04:00GAAHHHH! Mine do that too!GAAHHHH! Mine do that too!Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.com