adjuncthell: For the kabillionth time: SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?

Saturday, October 22, 2011

For the kabillionth time: SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?

Open-book quiz, 2/3 of which was taken DIRECTLY from the fucking 112 online stuff that they were supposed to have done last night and I still get 3 different people coming up to the desk not knowing what to do and asking those questions there should be a sniglet for, the ones where they basically are asking what they are supposed to do but you can’t explain it any better than you already did in the directions without actually giving them the answers or basically re-teaching the lesson in condensed form.

And again, HOSTILE GLARES when I tell them, “I’m sorry I can’t answer that without giving you the answers; look at the guidelines in the book and do the best you can,” because OBVIOUSLY it’s my fucking fault if they don’t know how to use the stuff we went over yesterday and that they were supposed to do for homework last night and that the syllabus clearly told them would be on the quiz today (and incidentally will be on the test in two days).

And of course these reactions came from people who have never shown their face in my office hours or even emailed me or told me in class that they needed help...

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The world is full of this kind of dumb smart-alec who doesn't understand anything.

- Richard Feynman  

I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nose punk leave my cheese out in the wind.

 - Ed Rooney, Ferris Bueller's Day Off by John Hughes

  Danny: I've gotta go to college.. I gotta. 

Webb: Aahh Danny... You don't have to go to college; this isn't Russia. Is this Russia? This isn't Russia is it? No, didn't think so..

 - Caddyshack  

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.  

- A. Lawrence Lowell

  If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.  

- Frank Zappa  

In school, we had a policy of never studying unless it was absolutely necessary, and still got high-to-mediocre grades. This convinced us that we were smarter than the average citizen, and actually, we're still thinking that way.

 - Jo Ann Beard, "The Boys of My Youth," The Boys of My Youth  

  ...I hesitated; with the lack of self-knowledge I'd exhibit for years to come, I'd signed up for an eight o'clock class.

 - Melissa Bank, The Wonder Spot  

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard

  ...Meanwhile, the Internet's booming, and kids we gave C pluses to are waltzing out of college and getting rich on stock options while we bust our asses for a pathetic stipend that doesn't even cover the rent.  

- Tom Perrotta, Little Children  

You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.

 - Tom Petty  

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. 

- Bob Dylan  

DISCLAIMER: The rocker quotes here should be taken with a grain of salt accuracy-wise as they are taken from thinkexist where many a poor quotation has been faultily cited. If anyone has corrections I urge you to comment. I would be very happy to make changes.