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[airball]

Fine. Whatever.

My mantra for the week.

[amiens]

Fine. Whatever.

My mantra for the week.

Me too.  The only downside to having a final paper is that the last few classes tend to suck since everyone's checked out and working on their classes that have exams.  This morning was BRUTAL and my afternoon class is the worst of the lot usually, so my hopes, they are not high.

In the words of the wise, "Fine.  Whatever."

[anthroid]

Fine. Whatever.

My mantra for the week.

Me too.  The only downside to having a final paper is that the last few classes tend to suck since everyone's checked out and working on their classes that have exams.  This morning was BRUTAL and my afternoon class is the worst of the lot usually, so my hopes, they are not high.

In the words of the wise, "Fine.  Whatever."

Fine.  Whatever.  I just want some of that crazy juice.

[gourmetless]

I believe we owe it to the students to be straight with them. Kind, but straight.  We are the advocates of the discipline.  Their job is to prove their own mastery of it.

Good for you, Jwormold. 

[jwormold]

Papers were due at 12 noon.  Guess who didn't bother to submit her paper?  What part of "you must get perfect scores on both the final [cough cough] and the paper to even earn a D" and "late papers go down 1/3 letter grade per day late" was unclear?

I'm bedazzling fine, whatever on something and freaking hanging it in my office.

[amiens]

Fine. Whatever.

My mantra for the week.

Me too.  The only downside to having a final paper is that the last few classes tend to suck since everyone's checked out and working on their classes that have exams.  This morning was BRUTAL and my afternoon class is the worst of the lot usually, so my hopes, they are not high.

In the words of the wise, "Fine.  Whatever."

Fine.  Whatever.  I just want some of that crazy juice.

I've never thought to bottle Amiens's V.S. Crazy Juice...extra income stream, here I come! 

Papers were due at 12 noon.  Guess who didn't bother to submit her paper?  What part of "you must get perfect scores on both the final [cough cough] and the paper to even earn a D" and "late papers go down 1/3 letter grade per day late" was unclear?

I'm bedazzling fine, whatever on something and freaking hanging it in my office.

I'm shocked, shocked to learn that she didn't submit a paper. 

[mytiaraisaskew]

And, this morning there were two in-class presentations scheduled. NEITHER of the students presenting showed up.  WTF?  I've just checked my inbox, and they've not bothered to email me either.  I get flakiness, but I have never been in a situation (either as a fellow student or later as an instructor) where someone totally blew off the presentation, and certainly not when BOTH people did.  They've putting crazy juice in the campus water or something.

Oh, one just emailed. She has an infection. Fine. Whatever.

I had THREE blow off the presentation.  One called and said he'd been in a fender bender and had to wait for the cops.  Him I actually believe, but you can't make up the presentation.  He wanted to know when he could come do the presentation, and I had to tell him he was out of luck, given that yesterday was the last day of classes.  I also need to make "Fine.  Whatever" my mantra.  Kids at new school are the most apathetic and snowflakey I have ever seen.  More plagiarism and whining than I knew was possible and I've been playing this college professor gig for a while.  "Fine.  Whatever"  indeed.

[jwormold]

Sanity finally prevails. My original AWOL student just emailed me to let me know that she'll be withdrawing from the course. About freaking time.