The insanely difficult Art History prof I mentioned earlier today graded on a strict bell curve within the single class he was grading. Which had 7 students, so only one person could earn an A and one was guaranteed a D no matter how hard they studied.
I also bear a seething grudge toward him for marking one of my papers down because I didn't use the words chiaroscuro and tenebrism in it—vocabulary that he had not yet taught in class. (I believe I dealt with bold light/dark contrasts being used to dramatic effect in the artworks being discussed, so the concepts were there even if the specific terminology was not.)
Except iTunes thinks that "cum" is a bad word and displays it as "c*m".
Ha!!
I don't remember college in as much detail as some of you people. When I got my transcript a few years ago, there were classes I would have sworn I'd never taken.
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This looks like what I'm looking for...thanks!
Or at least, they start college less prepared than they used to.
I find that we have to spoon feed students a lot of stuff that I wasn't given in college, and that failure spoon feed results in students who panic and flail and find themselves unable to perform said task. I wouldn't call that entitlement, not sure what I'd call it. Lack of life skills? But dude, I lacked life skills when I was a freshman, somehow I coped.
Well maybe if Jesse smoked less pot, she wouldn't have such a hard time remembering her classes.
I did fewer drugs than just about all my friends, but they remember more than I do.
Wait, no, there was the one friend I recently called out about lying about when she lost her virginity. I'm not sure what she thought she was going to get away with, in front of me and her new friend. Woman sent out POSTCARDS announcing the happy event, and I'm supposed to forget when it happened?
Lack of life skills?
More like initiative and independance. I tell you, it all goes back to cell phones.
I hardly smoked any pot at all in college!
I find that we have to spoon feed students a lot of stuff that I wasn't given in college, and that failure spoon feed results in students who panic and flail and find themselves unable to perform said task.
I wonder if this is related to the psychotic hoops they all jump through now just to get into college. I'm 100% convinced I would, today, never get into the college I got into 15 years ago. Like, I'm smart, but I can't tighrope-walk while playing the trombone and fishing drowning children out of the bay, you know?
When you spend a year (or more) becoming convinced that the whole world is going to end if you get an A-, then you get to college and... remain convinced that the whole world is going to end if you get an A-.
Nutty, I think you're right.
