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Theodosia - Jul 26, 2008 5:26:49 am PDT #9624 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Essay-writing course could be supremely valuable, and worth every penny -- I wish I'd had that when I was applying to colleges all these many years ago, and I was more than average in my writing then, IIRC.

I was shocked beyond belief when I heard that a well-intentioned friend was writing all the essays that her sister owed for a night course. Especially because said friend is a teacher who should damn well know better. In fact, I'm still in shock, and it's years later.

Jesse - Jul 26, 2008 5:45:49 am PDT #9625 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Teaching a kid how to write an essay, and writing the essay? So different.

Seriously.

When I was in high school, we had a family friend who was a high school English teacher and helped all the kids with their essays. I was having some 16-year-old snit and wouldn't start them until the last minute, and finally ground something out that was what I thought colleges wanted to hear (a strategy that had served me well through high school!). It must have been my mother who read it and was like, yeah no. This doesn't reflect you at all, and you need to talk to Margaret. So of course I had a huge melt-down, finally worked with her a couple of days before the deadline, and came up with stuff that worked.

Burrell - Jul 26, 2008 5:49:52 am PDT #9626 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I advise my students on writing personal statements all the time, I see it as part of my job.

I'm appalled.

Yeah, me too. I had a student turn in a paper last semester that I'm pretty sure came from one of those mills, but I couldn't peg it as plagiarism for sure, just a highly derivative essay cribbed from a bunch of random sources (yes, I did track down most of the sources so I could verify just *how* derivative it was) and not entirely written to the prompt. IN the end I gave him the benefit of the doubt and gave it a C.

Jesse - Jul 26, 2008 6:01:49 am PDT #9627 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, and Happy Birthday, Kat!!

Sue - Jul 26, 2008 6:03:16 am PDT #9628 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Happy Birthday Kat!

DavidS - Jul 26, 2008 6:09:37 am PDT #9629 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

he's just a twelve year old boy and I have to practically nail him down to take a picture where he's not making a face.

Barb, I have found with my (almost) 12 y.o. that it's best to catch him right after a game when he's too tired to run away.

Burrell - Jul 26, 2008 6:11:23 am PDT #9630 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Happy birthday Kat! Hope you have a most excellent one!

DavidS - Jul 26, 2008 6:11:38 am PDT #9631 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Happy birthday, Kat! Are the kids taking you out? There better be cake.

Tom Scola - Jul 26, 2008 6:15:15 am PDT #9632 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Happy birthday, Kat!

sj - Jul 26, 2008 6:15:52 am PDT #9633 of 10003
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Happy Birthday, Kat!!! I hope you have a great day.

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