- Attendance drastically drops because student loan refund checks were distributed. (I call it "Check Day")
- When you ask a student if they have an assignment that is due, he or she looks at you like you are speaking Swahili.
- Only one student in a class of 15 turns in an assignment on time.
- A student who has not attended class since mid October asks you what he or she has to make up.
- A student who has not submitted any work all semester asks you what he or she needs to do to pass your class.
- The dreaded "Do you give extra credit?" comes up at least once a day.
- You need hard liquor to get through grading a stack of papers. (I use whiskey)
- The number of papers you have to grade equals or exceeds the number of loads of laundry yet to be done.
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I have nothing to add but I don't understand why loan checks would lead to low attendance. Do you suppose I can take off from work on loan check day? :)
At my college, many of the students think that a loan refund is free money. What they don't realize is that student loans stick with you forever...like luggage or herpes!
How about you confront a student about the plagiarized essay she turned in from one of those free essay websites and her only response is, "Oh. Sorry."
I think you've already hit on all my others.
You know it's the end of the semester when every morning you can't hardly open your office door from all the late papers stuffed under it overnight.
Do you have a particular grading whiskey of choice?
Sheepish: It depends. Last semester it was Jim Bean. Any suggestions?
. . .you are greeted with hostility when a mother-son duo comes in for advising. Mother does all the talking and does not like being told that her son needs to take charge of his education and ask the questions. Son sits through most of the conversation like a sack of potatoes. "You're the one who needs to change," says mom , who adds that sonny "has been part of our lives for eighteen years and we will always be a part of what he does. Just like we do for his sister. After all, we're paying for the education." And they have been paying for several semesters you realize once you wrangle sonny into answering a question.
Feeling like you're living in a horror movie scene and that you'll be mom's lunch, you decide not to bring up the FERPA issue.
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