Sharing some school lulz with you guys.

Chryst Krispies

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Yeah I spelled "barrel" incorrectly, but who cares I got the question right! Ha ha! Thank you, Peppy.:p
This was a quiz by the way on the shoulder.
 
I dunno dude, I imagine even the best professors occasionally succumb to just glazing over answers and checking them off without realizing what they're actually reading :lol:
 
I don't think professors pay attention half the time anyways. One of my teachers had his toddler grading homework with a crayon one time.

I dunno dude, I imagine even the best professors occasionally succumb to just glazing over answers and checking them off without realizing what they're actually reading :lol:

After the time I've spent grading developmental algebra and calculus homework (I'm not technically a professor, to be anal about it... too bad!), this is definitely the case. Some things just slip by, period. It takes a lot of patience to finish even a stack of 30 short papers on basic topics (and the stacks of 60-80 papers I get from two developmental classes actually start mating when I'm not paying attention) and even going over things several times won't always stop every error. Even those who want to be careful and thorough will make mistakes.

(To be fair, some batches of students bring this on themselves - I once submitted "midget porn stars" as an answer to an abstract algebra question... and successfully defended my answer.)

If you ever want to gain a great deal of respect for everyone who has ever tried to teach you anything, grade.

Jeff
 
A guy at my former school had to write an essay with the title "What is real courage".

He handed a sheet with nothing but the words "This is real courage" in and got an A :kickass:

The teacher was a very cool guy, though.
 
In my junior year of highschool I had to write a research paper for english. My english teacher was also the yearbook advisor so she was more focused on that instead of being a teacher and teaching her class. I never wrote the paper...But was able to convince her that I did, I told her what the paper was about and even tried to throw her a few quick facts to make it seem legit. In the end I had her believing that she lost mine and 3 other students papers. None of us ever wrote the paper. We all got B's
 
That would be what we in the business call a "shitty thing to do to somebody".

Losing a paper is a huge deal, and not the kind of thing teachers are really able to just shrug off - playing that paranoia out of laziness is pretty low.

Jeff