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« Reply #30 on: May 14, 2008, 09:42:14 PM » |
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I'll take 21. (I'm feelin' lucky!)
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« Reply #31 on: May 14, 2008, 09:45:59 PM » |
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I'll say lucky 13.
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« Reply #32 on: May 14, 2008, 09:57:29 PM » |
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Via a complicated formula (it included eigenvectors, factorials and imaginary numbers). I arrived at a predicted value of 11.4. I'm rounding my bet up to 12. (That is, emails from 12 different students. Some of them may send a barrage of pleas/threats.)
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« Reply #33 on: May 14, 2008, 09:58:13 PM » |
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I am going optimistically low and will say 9 (did someone already say 9? I don't think anyone said 9.)
Thanks for your optimism! 9 is yours. The pool is up to $135.00. |
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« Reply #34 on: May 14, 2008, 10:16:39 PM » |
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$135.-? Mmhh ... that's a medium-nice pair of shoes.
Any e-mails come in yet? Will you post as they arrive? Or do we really have to wait until Saturday?
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« Reply #35 on: May 14, 2008, 10:25:38 PM » |
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I'm in for 26, including 4 "my grandmother didn't pay her electric bill so she could come to my graduation"
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« Reply #36 on: May 14, 2008, 10:29:35 PM » |
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I'm going low. Seven (7) actual grade grubbing emails.
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« Reply #37 on: May 14, 2008, 10:39:18 PM » |
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My guess is 57.
I've had my own desperate emails coming in fast and furious all day. It's so fatiguing reading and responding to them, knowing that their grades could have been much better if they had just read the syllabus and the detailed assignment instructions posted on the course website. I think I've heard every excuse in the book and these are GRAD students. The winner in my class - a student who admitted that he didn't read the syllabus until last week and realized that he missed posting all of the weekly discussion thread assignments AND a paper that was due in March. These omissions cost him 30% of his grade and he failed the course.
Gin and tonic, anyone???
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« Reply #38 on: May 14, 2008, 10:41:06 PM » |
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$135.-? Mmhh ... that's a medium-nice pair of shoes.
Any e-mails come in yet? Will you post as they arrive? Or do we really have to wait until Saturday?
Yes, some have come in here is a funny one - this is the entire e-mail word for word: I was wonderinge do you round grades up? I have an 89.4%My reply: Why yes, I do, however 89.4% rounded does in fact = 89%. |
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« Reply #39 on: May 14, 2008, 10:44:00 PM » |
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My guess is 57.
I've had my own desperate emails coming in fast and furious all day. It's so fatiguing reading and responding to them, knowing that their grades could have been much better if they had just read the syllabus and the detailed assignment instructions posted on the course website. I think I've heard every excuse in the book and these are GRAD students. The winner in my class - a student who admitted that he didn't read the syllabus until last week and realized that he missed posting all of the weekly discussion thread assignments AND a paper that was due in March. These omissions cost him 30% of his grade and he failed the course.
Gin and tonic, anyone???
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« Reply #40 on: May 14, 2008, 11:19:52 PM » |
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Tanq it is, with a nice twist of lime!
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« Reply #41 on: May 14, 2008, 11:41:37 PM » |
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Through the magic of http://hamete.org/dserver/dice, I predict 62. Mme. LF should get in on the action. |
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« Reply #42 on: May 15, 2008, 12:14:20 AM » |
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I'm going for sixteen (16).
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« Reply #43 on: May 15, 2008, 01:54:11 AM » |
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Does anyone have 27 yet? If not, put that down for me.
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If you want to be zen, then stay in the freaking moment.
A lot of the people posting on this thread need to go out and get kohlrabi.
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« Reply #44 on: May 15, 2008, 07:39:09 AM » |
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Does anyone have 27 yet? If not, put that down for me.
Ooops wait, ofu_tofu has 27, 26 is also taken how about 25 or 28? |
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