make him walk across campus to get you a cheesecake

Houshphandzadeh wrote:just realized now I have off Monday

I am having a pretty great 24 hours

Dig it. I have a four day weekend starting Saturday. I love those. We're going to take the dogs to the giant leashless park at Ft. Steilacomb. It's funner than it sounds.

Sunday night is Anniversary celebration at our new favorite restaurant.

Also gonna drink a few beers and chill like Will.

Good stuff days off.

when the house phone rings it also tries to pronounce the name on the caller ID. this is pretty much useless bc it will take something you think to be simple like pennsylvania and say "peen-slah-van-ye"

turn it off

TenuredVulture wrote:A student missed an exam today. He sent me an e-mail amounting to "i forgot". Do I allow him to make up the exam, or not? If he had made up some excuse that was even somewhat plausible, I'd most likely let him make up the exam.

I am taking my time with this decision.

maybe. but he loses some points to start with. like if he gets them all right the highest grade he can get is a b plus

TenuredVulture wrote:A student missed an exam today. He sent me an e-mail amounting to "i forgot". Do I allow him to make up the exam, or not? If he had made up some excuse that was even somewhat plausible, I'd most likely let him make up the exam.

I am taking my time with this decision.

Let him take it, but dock him 5-10%

TV. You should make him take an oral exam (PiP). Have him stand at attention in your office and grill the crap out of him. Shake your head disgustedly at most of his answers.

Interrupt one answer with a disgusted: "arghhh, that's enough -- Jeezus."

Write furiously with a red pen during most of his answers.

Word will get out and you will never have the problem again.

TenuredVulture wrote:A student missed an exam today. He sent me an e-mail amounting to "i forgot". Do I allow him to make up the exam, or not? If he had made up some excuse that was even somewhat plausible, I'd most likely let him make up the exam.

I am taking my time with this decision.

Honesty and politics don't mix. Make him sell the snake oil.

MrsVox wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:A student missed an exam today. He sent me an e-mail amounting to "i forgot". Do I allow him to make up the exam, or not? If he had made up some excuse that was even somewhat plausible, I'd most likely let him make up the exam.

I am taking my time with this decision.

Let him take it, but dock him 5-10%

I like this idea. Dock him a letter grade (or half, if you're feeling charitable).

Sittin on a bench watchin the girls go by

Yeah campus wasn't sundress filled, but the lack of jackets was a step in the right direction

Here the big thing at this moment is haltertops

and this Klosterman book

jerseyhoya wrote:Yeah campus wasn't sundress filled, but the lack of jackets was a step in the right direction

were they breaking into the hoodys?

PrattRules wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:A student missed an exam today. He sent me an e-mail amounting to "i forgot". Do I allow him to make up the exam, or not? If he had made up some excuse that was even somewhat plausible, I'd most likely let him make up the exam.

I am taking my time with this decision.

I think, for me, it would hinge on his previous classroom attendance record. If it was $#@!, then I wouldn't let him take it.

He went with the honest mistake approach. If I were a professor, I would probably respect him more for telling the truth, I assume most of the excuses you get are a complete lie anyway.

Am I the only person that didn't realize that the blonde chick on Modern Family was also the chick from Happy Gilmore?

TenuredVulture wrote:A student missed an exam today. He sent me an e-mail amounting to "i forgot". Do I allow him to make up the exam, or not? If he had made up some excuse that was even somewhat plausible, I'd most likely let him make up the exam.

I am taking my time with this decision.

I think you should appreciate his honesty and let him take it with no points off. He's either stupid for telling you and is going to fail anyway or has an admirable moral code.

Time for an admirable alarm clock

Trent Steele wrote:Am I the only person that didn't realize that the blonde chick on Modern Family was also the chick from Happy Gilmore?

Maybe. If it makes you feel better, my friend told me last year or else I may have not realized from just watching.

The Nightman Cometh wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:A student missed an exam today. He sent me an e-mail amounting to "i forgot". Do I allow him to make up the exam, or not? If he had made up some excuse that was even somewhat plausible, I'd most likely let him make up the exam.

I am taking my time with this decision.

I think you should appreciate his honesty and let him take it with no points off. He's either stupid for telling you and is going to fail anyway or has an admirable moral code.

It is not admirable to forget you have a test and skip class. There has to be some sort of punishment for that. Someone has to pay something. It is like if some kid throws a baseball through your window. He comes to tell you and he either has to pay for it or you do. Either way someone is paying to get it fixed.

So TV either takes a hit as a professor and the kid tells all his friends that he skipped a class and all he had to do was email him and say I forgot. Or the kid loses some or all points. Either way someone is paying something.

Maybe I am making this too philosophical though.

Trent Steele wrote:Am I the only person that didn't realize that the blonde chick on Modern Family was also the chick from Happy Gilmore?

I know now.