tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28832262371657016082024-03-05T06:27:31.695-05:00College MiseryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6332125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-25519537452223585552016-12-20T15:12:00.001-05:002016-12-20T17:44:49.893-05:00The Whole, Final, Miserable History.
In the beginning there was RYS (Rate Your Students), a blog started by "The Professor" on November 3, 2005. It was a slow grower. "The Professor" handed off moderating duties when it got busy. Lots of national press. From 2008-2010 Compound Cal joined as a moderator, and was the last man standing when he shut the place down on May 28th, 2010. (Famously, Cal wrote a great piece for the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-75978476239964689392016-12-17T03:46:00.002-05:002016-12-20T17:44:50.513-05:00Observations
Some observations on the semester that is almost (finally; thank goodness) over, arranged by buzzword: Retention:This hasn't been my best semester. I started it tired; I tried something new toward the beginning of the semester and waited too long to bail on the parts that weren't working and regroup; I was trying to teach 4 sections of the same class on 3 different schedules, which is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-46350174249691867802016-12-16T09:28:00.003-05:002016-12-16T09:28:49.744-05:00From IHE: My Best/Worst Semester Dropping from full-time to a single course reveals losses and gains.
by John Warner
6. I miss being part of an institution.
Periodically, over the course of the semester, things would crop up where I thought I could be of help, but I had to force myself to not participate in order to not be even more culpable in my own exploitation. As the department begins to discuss possible changes to the first-year writing curriculum I know that I could be a voice in Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-52461823695717576782016-12-15T12:30:00.005-05:002016-12-20T15:33:26.461-05:00Brief musings about finals misery and a Big Thirsty to Boot!
Clearly Dr. Amelia is doing ANYTHING to avoid grading:
1. "In our world today" was on our list of banned phrases for the class because Dr. Amelia hates it, she does. So, why, Why, WHY am I seeing it in every tea partying essay exam answer today?
2. The students get hot chocolate and therapy dogs to deal with the stress of studying for finals. Where are my puppies? Someone needs to get on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-77359715911652741822016-12-14T00:00:00.000-05:002016-12-14T00:00:17.840-05:00Irene in Iowa. Finding Out the Truth.
After three wonderful years post-doc at my PhD school, I took a tenure track job this fall a hundred miles away at a sorta of notoriously lousy college. Sue me. I needed dental for my growing family of crooked-teethed children! I wanted a living wage, too, and a real office, and a title, and all the things that we are told are part of the academic dream.
I was pleasantly surprised to find a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-41954206015870623372016-12-13T21:34:00.000-05:002016-12-13T21:34:05.011-05:00Comments Caught in Spam.
I am finding 1-2 legit comments in the spam filter every day. I will try to check there more regularly. Sorry if a comment of yours doesn't appear timely.
The RGM
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-85817991417227250902016-12-13T15:00:00.000-05:002016-12-13T15:00:28.723-05:00Oh, hey, here's some misery...
The faculty union at Orange Coast College is squaring off against a student who shared a secret recording of a professor's in-class comments about Donald Trump on social media.The recording starts mid-sentence; the professor was apparently responding to a student who asked her to her to "talk about how she felt" about the election.The recording was published on Facebook, and a student group Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-46646066746246930642016-12-13T00:00:00.000-05:002016-12-13T00:00:09.677-05:00"Those Sweet Freshpersons." Coming to a theater near you. From Dr. Amelia.
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Prologue: Quiet room full of students taking final exam, where they have been hard at work for 8 minutes or so.Opening credits: Thought bubbles over their heads. Act 1: Late student enters. Takes exam and sits down and begins to work. An hour passes.Act 2: Late student asks to go to the bathroom. Goes, and returns a full 15-minutes later. Prof Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-41214406278472489962016-12-10T06:55:00.001-05:002016-12-10T06:55:16.817-05:00What to advise a student who has done poorly all semester, by Froderick Frankenstien from Fresno
Final exams are next week. I am now getting the usual wave of students coming in during (and not during) office hours for the first time all semester. These students have done little reading or homework all semester, and have done poorly on the mid-term exams, and now want to know what to do.
The deadline for dropping classes passed long ago. So, they want to know what they have to do to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-72584271442269161512016-12-09T13:27:00.001-05:002016-12-09T13:27:39.152-05:00From Terry P. Whatever you do...
...don't go on Twitter and type "professor cancelled final."
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84301500022394376592016-12-08T20:03:00.001-05:002016-12-08T20:03:26.771-05:00Hector Sends In This Link
Here's a website that has been popping up on some of the plagiarized papers I've been getting.
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Who are we?
We are a young yet experienced team of writers and service specialists who have been helping students since 2007.
Why do we do what we do?
To put it simply, we’ve all been there. We know the pain of wasting precious time on less-than-exciting assignments while your student years Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-26056664664491888262016-12-08T17:15:00.002-05:002016-12-20T15:33:26.137-05:00Follow Up to Yuri...From Cal. (And a Kind of Quickie Big Thirsty Just For Continuity...)
It may be that some people on Yuri's thread below don't have a lot of experience with what goes on in many typical freshman comp classes.
The sheer amount of outside class cheating is sometimes overwhelming. The first essay I took in this past semester in my 8 am section (always a bad time for this it seems), had 14 of 21 papers that had work copied and pasted from online essays, and these Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-43318271207781605802016-12-08T05:28:00.002-05:002016-12-08T05:28:22.483-05:00yeah...real student email from this week
Often notedas the worst everCM graphic. Thx!
"I just reviewed the feedback/ criticism from my long draft report. But hey, try giving out some positive remarks with all of the negative you like to give. Also, I did complete the [hamster hairdressing] research, I didn't submit it. Thanks again for your criticism!"
The author is not a 20-year old snowflake.
The author already works in a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-41705605098183645472016-12-07T09:55:00.000-05:002016-12-07T09:55:11.165-05:00Yuri in Youngstown on Academic Cheating.
When I first became a Dean, I had no idea that a large part of every week would be spent on academic cheating cases. It was endless. It was discouraging. It changed the way I look at students forever.
In reviewing the past couple of relevant posts and comments, I remember a couple of English professors at my college who began to combat this in a way I found clever and unique.
It started with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-75177660600666375692016-12-07T00:00:00.000-05:002016-12-06T18:42:03.323-05:00Early Thirsty From Tentative Tina.
I can't seem to
drink this problem
away.
I'm a freeway flyer, as we used to say, and I'm stuck at the WORST COLLEGE IN AMERICA for 2 sections this term because my normal part-time gig got plucked by someone else. Anyway, that's straightened out and I won't have to return to this place again.
However, I am taking in final papers from my students and they are FULL of plagiarism cases. If Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-68502620900356838142016-12-06T17:41:00.004-05:002016-12-06T17:41:25.292-05:00From Stanley in Statesboro.
At the last minute faculty got it cancelled.
Yes, we have a gun range on campus.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-50908578982417053782016-12-06T00:00:00.000-05:002016-12-05T23:49:33.904-05:00tu esd ay
O pe n 4 rUm
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-12728291923585722362016-12-05T23:00:00.000-05:002016-12-05T10:53:27.328-05:00POW! From the Wombat.
I'm going to miss class today. What do I do?
-NotWombat's Student
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IDK, Netflix?
-WotC
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-28143947780211068702016-12-05T18:20:00.000-05:002016-12-04T18:21:16.892-05:00monday
Open forum
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-33758694923289553962016-12-05T00:00:00.000-05:002016-12-05T11:13:38.181-05:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-2484528546853733982016-12-04T00:00:00.000-05:002016-12-04T00:00:22.837-05:00S U N D A Y. O P E N. T H R E A D.
Just type
yer mizery in
the region.
😒
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-13474629123974491252016-12-03T08:40:00.002-05:002016-12-03T08:40:19.761-05:00University of Southern California professor fatally stabbed on campus, student arrested
The president of the University of Southern California has identified the professor stabbed to death by a student on campus as a psychology professor and neuroscientist.
USC President C. L. Max Nikias said in a letter to the USC community that the professor killed Friday afternoon was Bosco Tjan, an expert in vision cognition and perception.
The USC Department of Public Safety said that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-16283672175906764132016-12-02T13:46:00.002-05:002016-12-02T13:46:42.819-05:00Friday Thirsty: Best Urban Legends? From Three Sigma.
One thing I dearly love is urban legends about college.
Scene: A huge lecture theatre, with many students busily writing in test books. The professor looks at his watch, and announces, "pencils down." The stragglers all reluctantly put down their pens and file up to the desk with their papers, except one student who keeps writing, putting the finishing touches on their paper.
A few Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-22653037907085732852016-12-02T00:00:00.000-05:002016-12-02T00:00:01.154-05:00Wide Open Friday Forum. In the Manner.
Feel free to post your insane misery below
in the region.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84305527479386647892016-12-01T16:26:00.005-05:002016-12-01T17:42:44.509-05:00Found on the Internet....
I posted something I found on the Internet today, some story about a TA who made a mistake and tore up a student's test because the TA thought the student had been cheating. I guess I was taken in by it because people are pretty sure I've been hoodwinked and that it would never happen.
Sorry. Thanks for the comments and the emails. ('cept that one...sheesh, you kiss your mother with thatUnknownnoreply@blogger.com