adjuncthell: You never walk alone

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

You never walk alone

Officemate Daisy had a student show up Monday afternoon expecting to make up exam "'cause I didn't know we were having a test that day." It's true we try to keep tests secret and only a select few are privy to such info - namely those who, um, read the syllabus and/or attend class.

She had another winner come in this morning at 8h40 to do a make-up but forgot to bring her excuse documentation and, upon finding herself S. O. Friggin' L., broke into the standard riff of disbelief: "...Seriously you're not going to let me make it up?"

D: No. Go get your paperwork and come back later.
Student: Well I have a class at 9
D: (wtf?) Well, so do I so there's no way you could have taken it in 20 minutes anyway. Go get your paperwork and you'll have to do it later.

Again with the stymied does-not-compute look, then she finally left.

Ahhhh. So it's not just me... not that I wish lame-ass students on the rest of the world, but it would be hard to go thru this crap alone and it's good to have tacit proof occasionally that others are met with the same tribulations... :)

Alas. There's really nowhere to turn but the bottle. Or as best put by DLWTR in an email just now:

"drinks....good....alcohol....good....students....bad....very bad....."

Cosmos here we come!!

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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  

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