Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I have a bunch of friends that got their Ph.Ds and are junior professors who get stuck with the intro classes, and their stories are pretty funny.

Me too. Two years ago, after hearing tales from one about the class and after helping grade some quizzes, I suffered a huge crisis of faith in humanity, which my acquaintanceship still refers to as my "do stupid people have souls?" phase. I am helping said friend grade papers again this year (what the hell, it keeps me on my toes), so stay tuned.

Papers that are taken straight from the internet.

I will have to check this out for my friend. He said his students were baffled at the idea that they would be asked to write essay exams, not to mention turn in a paper of more than 3 pages in length.

Kids who complain that stuff that was talked about in class but not part of the reading was on the exam.

Especially when the lecture is prefaced with "this is not in your book, and will be on the exam." A variant: finding stuff from the book regurgitated on exams when the students have been told explicitly in class "your book is wrong." And on that thought, goddamnit, I don't remember textbooks being as incredibly crap as the college textbooks I've seen recently.

People who were never seen in class before who show up for the exams

I had a class like this. 6 of us regularly showed up for lectures. 65 showed for the exam. All but the 6 of us left before the 1/2 way mark. Our reward was to stay after the exam while the prof read random samplings of the exams of our peers. Then we all laughed our asses off and went out and got drunk together.