tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post7856592145670265643..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: RYS Flashback. 7 Years Ago Today.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-13492465784047719022013-09-04T23:29:09.780-04:002013-09-04T23:29:09.780-04:00That title is especially dark, but with that kind ...That title is especially dark, but with that kind of student, what do you expect?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-52921279417161194342013-09-04T17:17:33.282-04:002013-09-04T17:17:33.282-04:00Oh, and I believe it would have been "the Pro...Oh, and I believe it would have been "the Professor," the founder of RYS, who would have come up with the title, which I often recall and modify when I'm explaining to outsiders what my career is like.Compound Calicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00059155949950433688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-3400507704749921832013-09-04T17:16:45.195-04:002013-09-04T17:16:45.195-04:00Indeed, you are right on about it, Dr. Colossus. I...Indeed, you are right on about it, Dr. Colossus. It was the first time I can remember hearing the "rock star student" line, and he's just such a smug bugger. It reminds me, however, of what we're sometimes up against.Compound Calicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00059155949950433688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-57114977243178799232013-09-04T13:32:05.132-04:002013-09-04T13:32:05.132-04:00This remains one of the RYS posts that I find most...This remains one of the RYS posts that I find most irritating, even after this much time. I'm not exactly sure what it is--the tone is unbelievably grating to me, for one thing, and there's a weaselly sort of entitlement to it that I simply find really unbearable.<br /><br />I guess this is what it is: these are the students that really cause you trouble. Not the dullards, oh no; they Dr. Colossushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14470085457331712203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-29525671445128688622013-09-04T12:17:02.865-04:002013-09-04T12:17:02.865-04:00Dear Uncommonly Articulate,
I'm sorry to disa...Dear Uncommonly Articulate,<br /><br />I'm sorry to disappoint you, but while I to some degree sympathize (if you're a freshman or soph), I am also underwhelmed; disappointed, even.<br /><br />I was that kind of freshman, too. Being accustomed to acing everything in HS, I looked forward to glowing in the same kind of adult adoration in college, too. And, for a little while, that was Peter Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00754472537710161295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-24622195837206849332013-09-04T10:27:02.649-04:002013-09-04T10:27:02.649-04:00Assuming that this was a real student and not some...Assuming that this was a real student and not someone's sockpuppet:<br />"You are right. I tend to be very spare with feedback because the 99% of brain-addled tequila-guzzling tea-partying students will never read the blasted thing. So, sure, come to my office. Have a cuppa and a cookie. I'll be happy to spend half hour explaining to you what was going on with your paper, and it'French Professeurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08062264385792788503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-16387179221416289612013-09-04T07:32:18.708-04:002013-09-04T07:32:18.708-04:00Do students this articulate even exist anymore? Mo...Do students this articulate even exist anymore? More the speed of nearly all my students in recent years has been something out of "Idiocracy," such as, "Asshole professors, huh-huh!"Froderick Frankenstien from Fresnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11653942918068535424noreply@blogger.com