4 posts tagged “students”

My cousin often finds humorous things on the Internet and distributes them to her friends (and me).  I always get a good chuckle out of them.  Since I especially liked what she sent out today, I thought I would share it with you.

Now, before you read any further let me say the following:

I have no idea where these images originated.  Because they were forwarded to me, I'm sure that many of you have seen these before.  Oh, and of course, I'm not making any money off using these images.  Yadda, yadda, yadda.

Second, there are a couple of questionable images.  Nothing too racy, but this entry should be rated PG-13, I suppose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That would be me.  It's almost time for my next class, and I'm finishing up the grading of some late papers (you all know I'm a softy...so, yes.  I do accept late papers.)

*singsong*

Guess what I found!

*/singsong*

That's right.  Another student has plagiarized their paper.  This time, I'm being smart about it (and I don't have the problem of having pitied this student because of his struggle with the class from the very beginning!  Huzzah!).  I have made a copy of his paper for my very own to keep.  I am highlighting every single bloody copied sentence (So far, I have - oooh!  Just one in which the words have been manipulated so it isn't exactly the same).

Redz- I'm gonna need to channel you tonight.  My class starts at 6:00 PM Central Standard. I'd prefer to speak with the student AFTER class, so I'll be in mental contact with you around, hmmm, 7:30?

Thanks!

 

 

Mais oui!

I am so ready for this bloody semester to be over!  (And I'm the professor, so I have the easy part!)

I "confronted" Suzy-Q this evening about her plagiarized paper. 

It didn't go so very well...for me.

I have a problem with being too nice. 

SHIT!

Suzy-Q stayed after class, by my request.  I sat down with her and listed the things that she had done wrong as far as her paper was concerned.

Item 1 - Used only one website, when I specified that the students had to use five sources, only one of which could be a website.

Item 2 - Did not provide a bibliography or a sources cited page (her response to that one: What?  Did we need one of those?)

Item 3 - Did not cite her source with in the body of the paper as she and the other students were instructed.  (Again with the "Uh, I didn't know I needed to.)

Item 4 - PLAGIARISM!

Her response to Item 4 was "But...I made some changes." 

Redz, laugh it up, toots, because you will think that this is hilarious...you, too, Lurkertype.  Yes, I am this naive!

It was if Suzy-Q honestly felt that she hadn't done anything wrong!  Can you believe the audacity?  Even after I spelled it out for her "This is plagiarism, and you can't do that," she got all defensive "I know!  I changed some words around."

OY!

She even had the muchos huevos grandes to ask if she could have a chance to re-write her paper (um, did she mean "re-copy" I wonder?), and if I knew of any books, journals and/or websites that would be good to use for her revised paper.

So, what did I, the great big softy do? 

I swear to god I hate myself!

Sure, I gave her the option of re-writing her paper.

*stupidstupidstupid*

I'm pretty sure that nothing she produces will convince me that she deserves anything but an 'F'.  I also don't really expect her to get the revised paper to me before the end of the semester.

I hate me.

I hate her.

In my next life I want to come back with muchos huevos grandes.  I really need them.

 

Man, have I been cranky lately!  Seriously, if you showed me a glass partially filled with water, I'd definitely see it as half empty.  Why is that?

Well *settles down into armchair psychologist mode* we haf here a sit-yoo-a-shun in which I - the subject - am bored with zee class I am teaching.

That is to say, I'm bored with the topic, not the students.  I'm teaching cultural anthropology - and don't get me wrong: I am so very glad to have this job, adjunct professor though I may be.

My degrees are in archaeology and physical anthropology.  For those of you who are familiar with the subfields of anthropology, you know that I have just covered two of the four.  I never touched linguistics (it simply didn't exist for me).  That leaves cultural anthropology - definitely a lesser favorite. 

Don't get me wrong - cultural anthropology can be fascinating.  It just doesn't hold my interest the way that physical anthropology does. 

I luf the skeletal system - it is a beautiful thing both in form and function - in growth and development - pretty much in any way that you look at it. 

I'm most fascinated with the human skeleton, but in a pinch, any skeletal system will do.  It's that fascinating.

 

Hand to god, I am that much of a skeletal geek...nerd...whateva.

However, I am teaching cultural anthropology - part-time

Sigh.

I can really tell a difference in the way the course is going this semester - it's my third time teaching this wonderful course.  I'm just not as enthusiastic about the material I need to pass along to my students.

In return, my students are bored (I think).  At the very least, they don't discuss as well as I would like them to.

Whine, whine, whine, mope, complain, whine.

I need to get over this.

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Okay, I'm over it.  I'm getting back to work.