tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post2265303790708573285..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Wide Open Friday Forum. In the Manner.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84426864930862108442016-12-04T14:36:34.305-05:002016-12-04T14:36:34.305-05:00No man is an island, entire of itself; every man i...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-21369110983636103082016-12-04T06:40:53.599-05:002016-12-04T06:40:53.599-05:00Have you tried copying the whole thing into a text...Have you tried copying the whole thing into a text document to kill off any code that may be embedded into the document you have? I read an article about how they can embed things into a document now that keep TURNITIN or google from finding a match. Little codes and things you can't see, but the computer can. Saving it as just text and then sending it to TURNITIN apparently fixes the Bellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15686242633678466958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-11189454093136142402016-12-03T20:45:27.735-05:002016-12-03T20:45:27.735-05:00Roethke's "Elegy for Jane." Lovely r...Roethke's "Elegy for Jane." Lovely reference. College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-45221610104116045672016-12-03T17:24:08.780-05:002016-12-03T17:24:08.780-05:00I fear this will be a growing issue, and I'm n...I fear this will be a growing issue, and I'm not quite sure what to do about it. On the one hand, there are the issues of the integrity of the degree and being fair to students who did their own work (with mixed success, but at least they tried, and presumably learned something in the process). On the other hand, there's the danger of spending too much time participating in an escalating Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-19087033146965491952016-12-03T15:17:38.404-05:002016-12-03T15:17:38.404-05:00Neither father nor lover.Neither father nor lover.Prof. Potternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-67099525254425060812016-12-03T12:27:52.092-05:002016-12-03T12:27:52.092-05:00There's apparently another mutation that leads...There's apparently another mutation that leads thieves to smash car windows and steal devices that are not backed up anywhere else (or maybe it leads otherwise-sensible people to leave devices in plain sight in cars parked in major metropolitan areas, and/or not to read the syllabus warning about backing up files -- well, I guess that last one was already endemic). Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36869423053316436232016-12-03T08:37:09.049-05:002016-12-03T08:37:09.049-05:00I went through this many years ago and I send you ...I went through this many years ago and I send you my condolences. It felt odd to me at the time, my own sadness, which didn't feel earned to me somehow. But of course it was. These are human beings who cross our paths, and the impermanence of all this life slams us across the face sometimes.<br /><br />College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-76727433885039557612016-12-02T22:22:55.571-05:002016-12-02T22:22:55.571-05:00A student of mine from 10 years ago died this week...A student of mine from 10 years ago died this week. A nice person who worked hard, laughed with gusto, loved animals, and died in hir early thirties.<br />It's funny how tired it makes me feel.Ego in Arcadianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-58025332527360231402016-12-02T20:09:46.314-05:002016-12-02T20:09:46.314-05:00At my place, the virus that formerly killed many g...At my place, the virus that formerly killed many grandparents about this time of the semester seems to have mutated to a form that infects computers and causes them to eat students' papers. So I'm counting this as good fortune for grandparents.Hungry hungry hippocampushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17343332729075701610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-16032347353308247662016-12-02T16:16:09.970-05:002016-12-02T16:16:09.970-05:00All good suggestions. Had a face-to-face with him...All good suggestions. Had a face-to-face with him/her yesterday. After asking for a brief explanation of some of the data analysis, there was a small admission of having gotten "help" with the techy part from a grad student, followed quickly by an adamant (and loud, and lengthy) monologue about how every other word of the paper was his/hers. <br /><br />I suppose students can have Finnfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02282896112304604873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-28891972501002333092016-12-02T13:35:38.351-05:002016-12-02T13:35:38.351-05:00Try some standard Googling of impressive lines. M...Try some standard Googling of impressive lines. Maybe Turnitin is missing something?The Gognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-20171983699146559212016-12-02T13:33:29.571-05:002016-12-02T13:33:29.571-05:00Grade straight and put on a slicker. Brace for th...Grade straight and put on a slicker. Brace for the shitstorm.The Gognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-40856086816638141552016-12-02T12:34:27.345-05:002016-12-02T12:34:27.345-05:00Ugh. You can ask for a meeting with them and ask t...Ugh. You can ask for a meeting with them and ask them to explain the thesis of the paper, how they conducted research, etc, and hope they crack. Did they conduct the statistical analyses themself? You could ask them to explain how. <br /><br />In grad school, I had colleagues question whether a peer of ours was doing his own work--his spoken English could be difficult to understand, but his Curly Charlannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-78190328472442996292016-12-02T11:50:51.639-05:002016-12-02T11:50:51.639-05:00I have an international student who just turned in...I have an international student who just turned in a research paper, all bright, shiny, full of sophisticated statistics and written in the Queen's English. Drafts I received a mere two weeks prior were ragged, incomprehensible, and in places just wrong. The Turnitin software detected nothing. I **know** something's amiss but I don't have concrete evidence to back me up. As it Finnfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02282896112304604873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-52413989889009709172016-12-02T11:35:23.927-05:002016-12-02T11:35:23.927-05:00I can't believe I'm saying this, but I lov...I can't believe I'm saying this, but I love the new font treatments, the color, the Courier. Wow, the new RGM is putting a stylistic stamp on things!Eating Low Saltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-55102499509415842072016-12-02T08:45:36.197-05:002016-12-02T08:45:36.197-05:00I'm about to start calculating final grades fo...I'm about to start calculating final grades for my remedial writing classes. I'm not sure I have the energy for this.Snarky Writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196509615328045888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-6029816730864867822016-12-02T06:50:56.357-05:002016-12-02T06:50:56.357-05:00If I graded straight, 50% of my freshmen in one se...If I graded straight, 50% of my freshmen in one section would flunk. But I've been told by my mentor that it would trigger a shitstorm. So I bump grades up? Now I'm the problem. Hughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-1677679580869163062016-12-02T04:02:57.879-05:002016-12-02T04:02:57.879-05:00I don't think there's enough room on the i...I don't think there's enough room on the internet to list all the misery.<br />Southern Bubba, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12050992903794385204noreply@blogger.com