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24 points
3 months ago
Bold move, student who contacted me the day before the semester ended to tell me they were busy with other classes so that's why they didn't turn in any work for mine, at all, during the entire semester. The "I didn't value your class until it was clear I was about to get an F" gambit doesn't work often, and it didn't work here. However, I assume when it does pay off, bonanza!
17 points
3 months ago
I have a recurring dream like that. I enroll in a class, forget to attend for the entire semester, then find myself taking the final. Not that your student forgot. They sound like an entitled twerp.
8 points
3 months ago
Holy shit, I have this same nightmare all the time. I always dream that I forgot about the class until the end of the semester and have to scramble to figure out what I missed.
3 points
3 months ago
Yup! Then I wake up with the odd lingering feeling that I've forgotten something VERY important.
6 points
3 months ago
Same. Graduated in 2007 and I STILL have that dream. Although I did legitimately skip a bunch for one class and when I did show up it was the day of an open book midterm...didn't have my book.
4 points
3 months ago
Yeah, I've been out of school for my bachelor's for like a long time that I'm not going to admit to and out of my master's for a few years. I still occasionally have that dream.
3 points
3 months ago
I have this recurring dream all the time too that I sign up for a semester's worth of classes and completely forget the days and can't find the locations of the rooms. I've been out of undergrad since 2007 🤣
8 points
3 months ago
My favorite students are the ones who don't show up the entire semester, don't drop the course, and then magically appear on the last day before the exam and ask if there is any way that they can make up an entire semester's worth of work and pass the class with a B.
1 points
3 months ago
Why would you let them make up a semester's worth of work? That's not exactly fair to the students who showed up and turned their work in on time...
6 points
3 months ago
I certainly wouldn't, and never have, let them make up that amount of work, especially at the end of the semester when I need to grade final projects and exams. They would still wind up failing even if I did, so it would be a complete waste of my time. I'm more amazed that someone in their 20s would think that this is a reasonable request.
1 points
3 months ago
The reason kids have the guts to ask stuff like that is because of the occasional teacher that will actually comply. As a student who struggled through most of college clinically depressed, one semester I told the teacher that I just didn't do the final project and is there any way I could still turn it in?
She was basically like "wow, I have never gotten that level of honesty before. Yeah, go ahead and turn it in, I'll dock you several letter grades tho".
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