thru a croc darkly

[nuncstans]

I don't blame students for not knowing things. Basic grammar, major genocides, how to dress themselves. What drives me absolutely crazy is their attitude of automatic disinterest bordering on scorn for anything they don't already know

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Even though I'm still an undergrad

[dental_unit]

(and possibly a fuckwad)

I would like to put it down for the record that I wish you were my professor. Though if it meant being with the "students" you describe, maybe I don't wish that. Whatever. Thesis statement: you are good.

[mjmj]

A much belated "Hello!", back. Isn't teaching so much more fun than that office assistant job in days of yore, or unemployment? Does it feel like you are visiting an alien planet?

From another undergrad

[anonymous]

My first year at university has been a little bit disappointing so far, partly because every time I go to a lecture everyone in the class is looking at facebook on their laptops. I feel you. Where do you teach?

[jwitchbaby]

LOL!

I once caught a student plagiarizing entire paragraphs from Sparknotes. I told him I wanted to see him in my office hours. When he came in I had his paper and the offending Sparknotes text printed out, side by side on the desk, identical paragraphs highlighted.

He stepped into the room. "You wanted to see--" And then he looked down at the desk. "Oh. Oops."

Good luck!