Papers were due in two classes yesterday, and in one class 5/13 students were absent, and of the remaining eight not one had finished his essay. The conversation that follows may be proof of one of my disorders.
Professor: What's going on here, is this a joke?!
Students: No! We had to prepare for English Grammar class!
Professor: What do you like your Grammar teacher better than me?
Students: No.
Professor: Are her classes more fun than mine?
Students: No!
Professor: Does she scent her assignment sheets with perfume?
Students: [LOL] NO!
Professor: Didn't I bake you guys cookies last semester??? Does she bake you things more often?
Students: [LOL] NO!
Professor: Don't you know English Practice is more important than Grammar?
Students: Uh, no, why?
Professor: Didn't you [Student X] just take an ESL test to go work abroad this summer?
Student X: Yes.
Professor: Did it have a bunch of Grammar questions, or was it more like English Practice, you know, talking about cleaning chores and picking vegetables?
Student X: It was all Practice.
So my class is more useful, so there! And you know I take off two points per day (out of ten)! Does she take off more than that?!
Students: If we come unprepared twice we fail the class.
Ahh... So... I have to increase the penalty, right, for you to do the work on time? Alright, I'll see about that...
Students: Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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I find it hard to imagine that happening at a university in the United States. i find it hard to believe that more than 1 person in a hundred wouldn't turn in a paper on time, much less an entire class. Although if there really are such scheduling conflicts professors are often lenient about letting students turn in their papers late, as long as you tell them like a week ahead of time about the problem, instead of walking into class without a paper.
they asked me one day ahead of time. i told them it was the other teacher's turn to put off the deadline, since i'd already done that once. they said she had also, but in my experiance, they're a bunch of filthy stinking liars. i'll ask the teacher about it when i see her. the other, more important thing i told them, is that two pages isn't alot to write in a week, and it's their own fault if they waited for the last night.
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