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May 20, 2008, 10:02 AM ET
A Virtual Wager on How Many Desperate Student E-Mails a Professor Would Receive This Finals Season
It’s time to turn in final grades for the term, and one professor posting to The Chronicle’s forums knew he’d get the usual burst of students sending e-mail pleas for higher marks. So he asked his colleagues to send in their best guess of how many of his 300 students would send in a desperate message.
Dozens of people wrote in with their guesses. Check out the thread to find out who won, but here is a sample of one of the desperate e-mail messages:
“Well the thing that’s just killing me is that I had the flu and my asthma was acting up very bad the week that you gave the 5 points extra credit and I was not able to attend class. I really was not able to attend because I could barely breathe and would have been a huge distraction to the class. I only missed my grade by a single point and I just wanted to see if there was anything we could do. If you could please help me I it would be appreciated more than I could describe with words. If I were to get a D in this course all of my hopes and aspirations for pharmacy would be instantly gone.”
This was just one of the four messages the student sent. He called the professor on the phone as well. The grade wasn’t changed. —Jeffrey R. Young
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