Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Why Do We Occasionally Post Notes We Get From Students? Because They Taste So Good.

I've got a teacher that probably writes for your website.

He has a rule about stapling our papers to turn them in. I forgot one day and he took out his stapler and put three staples right in the middle of the page. He didn't say anything and I didn't either.

It's his problem. He's the one who has to read it now around the staples!


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  1. Good move, kid. Your direction-following skills will take you far. I hate to break it to you but your prof is only going to read the first page and then assign it the shitty grade it deserves.

    I don't accept loose paper from students at all, so you're lucky he was so generous. What kind of moron hands in a paper that isn't stapled? I can't even imagine thinking that that would be ok.

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  2. Wait. We actually have to read the stuff that students hand in?!?

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  3. This makes me wish I had students turn in papers rather than online grading. I could do all kinds of stapler art.

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  4. Sure, your proffie will have to remove the staples in order to read it. The funny thing is, those staples cover up the holes and tears that exist in the middle of each page. How did that get there? I don't know either but it's your paper. You should have paid attention to things like that. Any decent student would notice a big rip in the middle of the page. I hope the holes didn't swallow up and words that make your paper (less) readable.

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  5. STAPLES! (Twitch! Twitch!) STAPLES!!!

    I like the stapler that shocks. My favorite, though, is the new-and-improved high-power model, with the savory roasting aroma.

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    1. I think we know what kind of porn Frod has on his computer (though IT might not recognize it as porn. "Why is 75% of this guy's hard drive taken up by pictures of. . . .staplers?!?" To each his own.)

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    2. STAPLES! (Twitch! Twitch!) MUUAAA-HAA-HAAAAA!!!

      STAPLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      In my more lucid moments, seemingly increasingly rarely, I remind them that real bosses in the real world will roll their eyes if you screw up something as simple as STAPLES! (Twitch! Twitch!)

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    3. They'll say, "Didn't they teach you to STAPLE (Twitch! Twitch!) papers together in college?"

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  6. I think your prof was engaging in a "teachable moment." Too bad you missed the point.

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  7. I used to keep the pages together for the purposes of marking, they would then be returned randomly distributed among the properly stapled assignments.

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    1. oh I LOVE that idea!!! However, how do you then deal with the inevitable student whining that you couldn't have read their whole paper and could you re-grade it? Do you just ignore the complaint? What do you say to them?

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    2. never had a problem, actually. Life was so much simpler in Canuckistan whhen I was young.

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  8. What do you bet that, somewhere buried in the middle of a paragraph in the middle of his 20-page syllabus, this professor has a reminder that papers are to be stapled, *and* a warning that the student is responsible for the consequences should the professor be forced to staple the paper himself?

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