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« Reply #3720 on: April 23, 2008, 01:06:20 PM » |
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Hasn't email pretty much done away with ending sentences
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songsofexperience
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« Reply #3721 on: April 23, 2008, 01:52:12 PM » |
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(Just my way of suggesting that e-mail has pretty much done away with sentences, never mind ending them!)
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« Reply #3722 on: April 23, 2008, 03:44:33 PM » |
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If it never ends, it isn't a sentence. Ask James Joyce and William Faulkner.
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« Reply #3723 on: April 23, 2008, 04:09:34 PM » |
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Relevant background info:
- This is not the first time this particular snowflake has had a very dramatic reason for why she was unable to send me an email on a predesignated day to arrange for a make-up assignment.
- The syllabus is posted on the course website and my email address is available in multiple places on the university website. If a student needs to get in touch with me, not having a hard-copy syllabus should not be an impediment.
The email I received today:
Hello,
I just went to Nationals in [another state] on Thursday and I was supposed to email you on Friday reminding you to email me Fridays written assignment so that I could do it. I brought my labtop with me so that I would be able to, but my labtop was stolen on Friday from [the other state]'s campus. I haven't had any way to email or get in contact with you because I did not have my syllabus with me, but we didn't get back into town until 6:30 this morning. I do not have the police report because they did not have it finished, but the head of [another] department said that he would send an email if I needed it before I could get the police report. Please let me know what my options are.
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« Reply #3724 on: April 23, 2008, 04:15:12 PM » |
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Student: "okay, i get it. what about when your not writing tho. How do you make sentences end?" When I read that, my head spun around 360 degrees, like an owl's. I just... could not quite process... the existence of such a question. Good lord, I truly feel your pain. |
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« Reply #3725 on: April 23, 2008, 04:18:58 PM » |
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I just went to Nationals in [another state] on Thursday and I was supposed to email you on Friday... Please let me know what my options are. I take it there were no computers in [other state]?! |
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« Reply #3726 on: April 23, 2008, 04:49:55 PM » |
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I take it there were no computers in [other state]?!
There is now: I brought my labtop with me so that I would be able to, but my labtop was stolen on Friday from [the other state]'s campus.
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« Reply #3727 on: April 23, 2008, 04:52:34 PM » |
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No, you are all missing the point. Student did not bring a computer but the countertop to a lab. That's where the problem comes in. Hu's labtop was stolen. That can really mess up the experiment. <snip> I brought my labtop with me so that I would be able to, but my labtop was stolen on Friday from [the other state]'s campus. <snip>
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Do you hail from Planet Hello Kitty? It's like an action movie, but boring.
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« Reply #3728 on: April 23, 2008, 06:14:29 PM » |
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Relevant background info:
- This is not the first time this particular snowflake has had a very dramatic reason for why she was unable to send me an email on a predesignated day to arrange for a make-up assignment.
- The syllabus is posted on the course website and my email address is available in multiple places on the university website. If a student needs to get in touch with me, not having a hard-copy syllabus should not be an impediment.
The email I received today:
Hello,
I just went to Nationals in [another state] on Thursday and I was supposed to email you on Friday reminding you to email me Fridays written assignment so that I could do it. I brought my labtop with me so that I would be able to, but my labtop was stolen on Friday from [the other state]'s campus. I haven't had any way to email or get in contact with you because I did not have my syllabus with me, but we didn't get back into town until 6:30 this morning. I do not have the police report because they did not have it finished, but the head of [another] department said that he would send an email if I needed it before I could get the police report. Please let me know what my options are.
Ah, I'm sorry to tell you that Snowflake actually is correct that there were not computers available for student use at Nationals. (I coach the event in question, you see, so my students were in Nashville also.) Snowflake is also correct that students lost and had stolen all kinds of stuff, ranging from laptops to clothing/shoes, backpacks, cell phones - everything you can imagine. Even if Snowflake's laptop had not been stolen s/he would have had problems because there was no wireless service on campus for guest users, and in the hotels wireless ranged from nonexistent to worse than spotty, thanks to several hundred students logging in simultaneously and playing Avenger (or something like that). They were pretty much reduced to text messaging to communicate with the outside world, poor dears! |
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« Reply #3729 on: April 23, 2008, 06:26:45 PM » |
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These two e-mails came from a student who earlier in the semester complained about my extra credit assignments being at "inconvenient" times.
I was wondering if it was possible for me to take the final before my class's scheduled date. If I could, can I take it next week sometime, at a time that's convenient for you?
Well, let's see. Our class doesn't end until Friday of next week, so maybe Friday evening or Saturday morning would be convenient?
I wrote back, "I cannot accommodate your request."
Is it possible for me to take the final earlier on finals week? Like in the morning of the Xth or possibly the Xth? Xpm is really inconvenient for me because I am starting a new job and I literally can't afford to take a whole day off of work.
My response: "I cannot accommodate your request."
After our class this week, student asks why the final cannot be accommodated to fit his/her work schedule.
My reply: "I cannot accommodate your request."
I don't understand why a student would not tell a new employer when final exams are and request the time off. No reasonable employer would flinch at accommodating a new employee who has had a set final exam schedule for five months.
Oh, wait, other professors in her major don't have final exams that week because they want to start their summer vaction early, so I am obviously the one who is wrong. Let me make an exception so that every Tom, Dick, and Harry (or the female equivalent) can then have just cause to plead their case for an alternate final exam schedule. I have nothing better to do that week.
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« Reply #3730 on: April 23, 2008, 08:29:56 PM » |
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I will not be able to have my final exam on March 9th. No one else noticed BibleBoy's odd dating? Or was that an anthroid typo? |
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« Reply #3731 on: April 23, 2008, 09:32:05 PM » |
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This was a face to face conversation, but I think it still fits in here.
Some background: As at most institutions, my unversity's final exams are scheduled by the registrar. The exam time is NOT necessarily the same day of the week, or hour of the day that the class met during the semester. The final schedule is available online on the first day of the semester, and I have it in the syllabus as well.
Me, at the beginning of class today: Exam 3 will be given on May xxx during finals week at xx pm.
Clueless student aspiring to be a doctor: I have class then. I can't make the exam.
Me: You have THIS class. This is the time scheduled for OUR final exam.
Clueless: But I have OTHER class on Tuesdays at xx pm.
Me: Please come speak with me after class.
Cluess: But wait, you can't just decide that you're doing an exam during another class!
Me: Please come speak with me after class.
Clueless: This is bogus.
Me: Please come speak with me after class.
He did not come speak with me after class. Guess who might be earning a zero on exam 3?
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« Reply #3732 on: April 23, 2008, 10:27:31 PM » |
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Clueless: This is bogus.
Me: Please come speak with me after class.
He did not come speak with me after class. Guess who might be earning a zero on exam 3?
One of the classrooms in which I teach has a couple of large rocks stashed in the podium. I always assumed some less than patient prof keeps them there for just such occurrences as this one. Sometimes I take the rocks out and show them to my class while saying, "You know how in high school your teachers used to throw chalkboard erasers at you when you fell asleep? Well I have something better." Some of them laugh and some of them duck. |
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« Reply #3733 on: April 23, 2008, 11:23:11 PM » |
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That's what fake rocks are good for. Especially if they have "breaking glass sound."
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« Reply #3734 on: April 24, 2008, 03:26:30 AM » |
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Anthroid,
The Christian student you mentioned lied to you directly. Why don't you call his school and talk to whomever is responsible for his being allowed to take your college course now, teacher, administrator, counselor, whatever. Tell this person flat out that the boy lied, and you have proof of this. They will not react positively to the news, and the boy will learn that God thinks little of mendacity. In fact, His opinion of this is so low that he made not doing it one of his ten biggies.
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