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« Reply #240 on: September 30, 2008, 01:13:02 PM » |
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I returned the first exam to a student who had done poorly, and he said reproachfully, "I didn't know you expected us to LEARN this stuff!"
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gennimom
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« Reply #241 on: September 30, 2008, 01:23:20 PM » |
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I returned the first exam to a student who had done poorly, and he said reproachfully, "I didn't know you expected us to LEARN this stuff!"
Um, isn't that the goal of college? Who knew? |
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« Reply #242 on: September 30, 2008, 02:21:30 PM » |
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Overheard in the bathroom earlier today:
Young Lady 1: "You have to pee all the time."
Young Lady 2: "I'm hydrating my body. I need to get rid of these chapped lips. It feels like I have herpes, I mean it."
At least this brightened my day.
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« Reply #243 on: September 30, 2008, 08:04:40 PM » |
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Overheard in the bathroom earlier today:
Young Lady 1: "You have to pee all the time."
Young Lady 2: "I'm hydrating my body. I need to get rid of these chapped lips. It feels like I have herpes, I mean it."
At least this brightened my day.
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gennimom
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« Reply #244 on: October 01, 2008, 04:16:47 PM » |
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Okay, so these weren't students but...
Staff member one: They are going to have a blast at these meetings!
Staff member two: Are you sure you don't mean explosions?
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« Reply #245 on: October 02, 2008, 01:26:03 PM » |
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Overheard in the hall just now:
Student 1: So how'd the paper go?
Student 2: I wrote it in like 20 minutes.
Student 1: (Loud sigh) Lucky!
Somehow, I don't think luck had anything to do with it.
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« Reply #246 on: October 07, 2008, 01:25:21 PM » |
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I was in shock. Four or five students walking down the hall.
Student 1: That's how you solve a series of equations.
I don't know what our campus is coming to.
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« Reply #247 on: October 07, 2008, 04:03:41 PM » |
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I saw a guy carry his girlfriend across the street today so she could avoid the flooding. Rather sweet.
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Grammar is the chocolate in the buttery croissant of life. -- Yellowtractor
Okay, so that was petty. Today, I feel like embracing pettiness. -- Mended Drum
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« Reply #248 on: October 16, 2008, 01:23:18 PM » |
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I overheard the following conversation walking back to my office after lunch:
Guy 1: Dude, I hear if you piss on you hands, it'll go away.
Guy 2: Really?
Guy 1: Something about the ammonia.
Guy 2: Awesome.
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« Reply #249 on: October 16, 2008, 04:06:12 PM » |
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It's not something I overheard, but an observation that I'm not sure where else to post . . . one of my students taking a makeup exam right now is wearing a t-shirt that says "University of Try My Nuts."
That's um, tasteful.
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« Reply #250 on: October 18, 2008, 12:05:28 AM » |
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From one of my students, in the hall after she left class: "I'm not a boy! I'm a girl!" I'd love to know what she was responding to.
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« Reply #251 on: October 18, 2008, 04:31:13 PM » |
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From one of my students, in the hall after she left class: "I'm not a boy! I'm a girl!" I'd love to know what she was responding to.
How indignant was she? A low level of indignation could have been a response to "Boy, wasn't that a hard class? Could you lend me your notes from last class?" A high level of indignation could have been a response to "Boy, wasn't that a hard class? Shall we check to make sure we haven't been unmanned by fear?" |
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« Reply #252 on: October 18, 2008, 08:34:44 PM » |
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A high level of indignation could have been a response to "Boy, wasn't that a hard class? Shall we check to make sure we haven't been unmanned by fear?"
You think my students fear me? Has my choice of the Machiavellian method mover the Socratic been successful? |
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« Reply #253 on: October 18, 2008, 08:39:50 PM » |
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A high level of indignation could have been a response to "Boy, wasn't that a hard class? Shall we check to make sure we haven't been unmanned by fear?"
You think my students fear me? Has my choice of the Machiavellian method mover the Socratic been successful? I think it's the maps. They're quite intimidating. |
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« Reply #254 on: October 18, 2008, 09:33:30 PM » |
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Nice and loud during the middle of one of my labs last week:
"Well, you're a boy. Of course if you hear the words "deep throat" you're going to be paying attention."
On one hand, I'm curious about whether than comment was in anyway related to the lab or the lecture with which it is paired. On the other hand, I'm probably don't want any details at all.
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