Swiggers wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Yesterday, I graded what might be the worst paper of my career. I thought the student might have turned in the wrong assignment, as it had no apparent connection to anything we've done in class all semester.

A high school friend of mine who's now an art professor had this FB status update tonight:

Grading a college paper and wanting to cry from all of the incorrect uses of "too" instead of "to" and "they're" instead of "their".

You won't last if you don't learn to let that stuff go. I'm talking about three pages of total irrelevancy. I've never seen anything like it before.

Maybe he wrote it at the same time as a paper for another class, and got them mixed up.

maybe collegepapers.com screwed up his order

My wife's friend's cousin went missing this morning.

He left without taking his car, and left a note for his father. He also was in real estate and liked to play the ponies. This is probably not good.

Bucky wrote:maybe collegepapers.com screwed up his order

That's a real possibility, or he went with a cut rate outfit, or downloaded a free paper placed there by bitter graduate students in order to screw over unwary undergrads.

Swiggers wrote:My wife's friend's cousin went missing this morning.

He left without taking his car, and left a note for his father. He also was in real estate and liked to play the ponies. This is probably not good.

That's potentially horrifying. Hoping for the best.

Werthless wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:She wasn't a terrible student grade wise, She is a high achieving student but she didn't come to class regularly who independently manages her time, didn't participate is a deep thinker, and never said a word to me and respects other people's time.

EZ PZ.

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TenuredVulture wrote:

Swiggers wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Yesterday, I graded what might be the worst paper of my career. I thought the student might have turned in the wrong assignment, as it had no apparent connection to anything we've done in class all semester.

A high school friend of mine who's now an art professor had this FB status update tonight:

Grading a college paper and wanting to cry from all of the incorrect uses of "too" instead of "to" and "they're" instead of "their".

You won't last if you don't learn to let that stuff go. I'm talking about three pages of total irrelevancy. I've never seen anything like it before.

I recall a freshman lit TA who (sources later informed me), on a Friday I inexplicably missed class, thoroughly ridiculed one of my more 'creative' essays, concluding to all in attendance that I must have written it in the throes of some sort of chemical reverie.

I recommend posting the work you're lamenting, so that we might help you probe for its deeper meaning

drsmooth wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

Swiggers wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Yesterday, I graded what might be the worst paper of my career. I thought the student might have turned in the wrong assignment, as it had no apparent connection to anything we've done in class all semester.

A high school friend of mine who's now an art professor had this FB status update tonight:

Grading a college paper and wanting to cry from all of the incorrect uses of "too" instead of "to" and "they're" instead of "their".

You won't last if you don't learn to let that stuff go. I'm talking about three pages of total irrelevancy. I've never seen anything like it before.

I recall a freshman lit TA who (sources later informed me), on a Friday I inexplicably missed class, thoroughly ridiculed one of my more 'creative' essays, concluding to all in attendance that I must have written it in the throes of some sort of chemical reverie.

I recommend posting the work you're lamenting, so that we might help you probe for its deeper meaning

It's not that interesting, really. It's just totally besides the point of the assignment. It's like I once in awhile make a post in the wrong thread.

Here's another gem--how dumb are you if you completely plagiarize a paper (someone turned it in last semester I guess) submit it to turnitin.com, where it shows up as 99% unoriginal material and hand it in anyway? Sheesh. F for the course, dumbass.

I wrote a paper for a friend up at Penn state and I don't know if they compared the writing style to his others but the paper received a b and a long ass comment as how she thought the paper was plagurized yet could not prove it.

Listening to someone else's dream is about 100 time more interesting than listening to your daughter recount an entire Torchwood episode.

Right ear still blocked. Hate it. Starting to think it's getting tuned to another dimension.

TenuredVulture wrote:

Swiggers wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Yesterday, I graded what might be the worst paper of my career. I thought the student might have turned in the wrong assignment, as it had no apparent connection to anything we've done in class all semester.

A high school friend of mine who's now an art professor had this FB status update tonight:

Grading a college paper and wanting to cry from all of the incorrect uses of "too" instead of "to" and "they're" instead of "their".

Your friend should get stickers made that say "Knowing your shit. Knowing you're shit. Big difference." and an evil grin smiley.

Hoping Dunkin Donuts still has dollar iced coffees.

beez time for an ear candle

Go to an ENT doctor and have it cleaned out. Then post the video to youtube.

I like this http://www.google.com/intl/en/culturali ... ldwonders/

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

Swiggers wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Yesterday, I graded what might be the worst paper of my career. I thought the student might have turned in the wrong assignment, as it had no apparent connection to anything we've done in class all semester.

A high school friend of mine who's now an art professor had this FB status update tonight:

Grading a college paper and wanting to cry from all of the incorrect uses of "too" instead of "to" and "they're" instead of "their".

Your friend should get stickers made that say "Knowing your #$!&@. Knowing you're #$!&@. Big difference." and an evil grin smiley.

I think the comment he decided on was "Using this kind of grammar on a college paper is like wearing a bikini to a funeral."

I went to Panera for the first time in a couple of years probably. Not sure why I expected it to not suck.

(Sorry, PTOITWCFTFPDKFNCNSKTAWDJ)