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What is the most insulting comment a professor has ever written on your work?
waterloosunset:
"Whose is this? You don't even study here"
jhocking:
--- Quote from: tania on 11 Nov 2008, 20:17 ---apparently a lot of schools are doing this now as part of something called the self-esteem movement
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Well in all fairness to institutions like Brown or SAIC that don't have grades, it's a really different thing on a college level than a K-12 level. I mean, in college the expectation (although admittedly this is only rarely true) is that the students are independent-minded adults who set their own priorities.
I is Grammar:
I never really had problems with teachers or professors writing nasty things on papers. I always had issues with the teachers / professors saying nasty things to me or my parents. In 10th grade, during a parent / teacher conference (These were the bane of my existence.), the upper school head asked me what my major would be in college. I told her that I was planning on majoring in marine biology. She laughed, and told me (in front of my mother) that I wasn't smart enough to be a science major and that I should be a theater major instead, because that was the only thing I was good at. After she said that, I was very concerned for her well-being, because I thought my mother was going to slug her. Fortunately (for the head, not for me; I would have loved to see it) she didn't, but explicitly told the head that she had no idea what she was talking about and that she was obviously deranged and unfit to work with students. Oddly enough, a year after I left the school, this head was fired for being an alcoholic and bringing her booze to work.
I also had issues with teachers not believing me when I corrected something they said or wrote on the board. At least once a week, I would correct my english teacher on a piece of grammar that was used incorrectly or a misspelling on the board. And equally as often, I'd get kicked out of class for insubordination. I was never rude or demeaning to the teacher, I just politely pointed out the mistake. Either he / she would announce that I had to be wrong and I'd be forced to get a dictionary and prove that I was right, or I would just be told to "leave my damn room."
Now, granted, I am a bit of a pedant when it comes to grammar or spelling. However, I never saw the need to "show up" the teacher. The mistakes (especially written on the board) would almost glow, and I couldn't focus on anything else until it was fixed. Made me crazy.
...maybe I am a little bit crazy.
Dimmukane:
Well, now I guess I understand your username.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: CarrionMan on 11 Nov 2008, 22:03 ---There's classes you can't fail? Seriously? Where?
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I had the best Earth Science class ever once at community college. And by that, I mean worst. You see, a 60% grade or higher was an A and 30% was still passing. The grades were based completely on the multiple choice exams, of which there were 4 and your lowest score was thrown out. I didn't give a shit about my GPA at that point and was taking several genuinely hard classes that semester so the second I heard the grading criteria I resolved to never show up except for exams and never studied. You know the difference between a tree and a rock? Here's your C! Have a nice day and enjoy spring break! The only way you could really fail is if you were both a complete moron AND tremendously unlucky or just never showed up for the tests. That said, it was apparently a hard class to get an A in, since the teacher was genuinely terrible. Hurray 2 year colleges. :roll:
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