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remindmeofthe) wrote2009-12-09 02:13 pm
remindmeofthe) wrote2009-12-09 02:13 pm
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Good thing about weather so bad that classes get cancelled:
Classes are cancelled.
Bad thing about weather so bad that classes are cancelled:
It had to happen today, which was meant to be the last meeting of my WWI & II class before our final next week. This class meets once a week, and this semester has already been broken up a lot in the last month or so because of holidays. So now we don't get whatever information we were going to get to round out a test I was ALREADY nervous about, we don't get confirmation on what to expect essay questions for, and I know e-mail exists but I'm not so sure about my professor. (That he knows e-mail exists, I mean; I know he exists.) I love the guy, but he still refers to photocopies as mimeos, for god's sake. I'm not gonna hold my breath hoping for an e-mail.
And while I'm posting, have an INFORMAL POLL.
A take-home essay exam should be:
A. Something that takes roughly as much time at home as it would in class.
B. A seven-to-ten page paper requiring discussion of SIX different texts on one of two poorly-taught topics, disallowing outside sources and with instructions insisting that it be a formally written academic paper. Oh, and you should definitely spring this on your students one week before it's due, after they've already carefully planned out their finals study schedule.
If you chose B, congratulations! You and my Irish Literature and Culture professor can go be douchebags together, preferably far away from me so I don't give in to the temptation to soak him in gasoline and light a match!
Fucking BASTARD.
Classes are cancelled.
Bad thing about weather so bad that classes are cancelled:
It had to happen today, which was meant to be the last meeting of my WWI & II class before our final next week. This class meets once a week, and this semester has already been broken up a lot in the last month or so because of holidays. So now we don't get whatever information we were going to get to round out a test I was ALREADY nervous about, we don't get confirmation on what to expect essay questions for, and I know e-mail exists but I'm not so sure about my professor. (That he knows e-mail exists, I mean; I know he exists.) I love the guy, but he still refers to photocopies as mimeos, for god's sake. I'm not gonna hold my breath hoping for an e-mail.
And while I'm posting, have an INFORMAL POLL.
A take-home essay exam should be:
A. Something that takes roughly as much time at home as it would in class.
B. A seven-to-ten page paper requiring discussion of SIX different texts on one of two poorly-taught topics, disallowing outside sources and with instructions insisting that it be a formally written academic paper. Oh, and you should definitely spring this on your students one week before it's due, after they've already carefully planned out their finals study schedule.
If you chose B, congratulations! You and my Irish Literature and Culture professor can go be douchebags together, preferably far away from me so I don't give in to the temptation to soak him in gasoline and light a match!
Fucking BASTARD.
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The one good thing about this whole thing is that the WWI&II professor gives really clear notes, so I have something concrete to study from. He just also expects perfect memorization for essay questions and I wanted a better idea of which themes (what he calls the topics he focuses on for test questions) to practice essay answers for. Because perfect memorization + me = LOL no without some serious practice. And even then.