I'm giving my students a quiz tomorrow. They have a quiz in my class every Wednesday. Both this week and last week, several students have asked me if they could take the quiz on Friday instead, because they've got a lot of other things going on in other classes and won't have time to study. Every single one of them has been really surprised when I said no, and a few of them tried to argue it. I really can't imagine asking that in college. (I have found that saying "It's your responsibility to schedule your time to complete the work in all the courses you registered for" will usually get the arguing to stop, but really, it should stop at "No, you need to take the quiz on Wednesday.")
We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.
Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Hil R. - Feb 08, 2011 1:22:24 pm PST #15175 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
brenda m - Feb 08, 2011 1:25:58 pm PST #15176 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Or maybe just at "quiz on Wednesday."
Burrell - Feb 08, 2011 1:26:27 pm PST #15177 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Hil, I think part of the job of teaching is teaching student what the expectations are. Again and again in some cases.
Steph L. - Feb 08, 2011 1:30:45 pm PST #15178 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hil, I think part of the job of teaching is teaching student what the expectations are. Again and again in some cases.
I remember one prof in college who, towards the end of the semester, came in with his own college diploma and held it up and said, "Do you know what this means to potential employers?"
After a few students called out things like "Skills!" or "Knowledge!" and whatnot, the prof said, "No! It means one thing: over the past 4 years, you have learned how to survive in a bureaucracy, which makes you employable."
He was a bitter old cynical dude, but I don't disagree with him.
sj - Feb 08, 2011 4:31:51 pm PST #15179 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm having some tests done tomorrow morning to try to figure out why my iron is so low. Nothing serious, but I'm nervous and would love some of that powerful buffista ~ma.
SailAweigh - Feb 08, 2011 5:10:37 pm PST #15180 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
sj, tons of good-outcome~ma.
Liese S. - Feb 08, 2011 5:22:14 pm PST #15181 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ayup, ~ma your way, sj.
WindSparrow - Feb 08, 2011 6:46:45 pm PST #15182 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Yeah, but in my mind, Fozzie Bear is singing it.
Patriotism swells in the heart of the American Bear.
sj, much iron~ma to you.
DCJensen - Feb 08, 2011 7:19:23 pm PST #15183 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Patriotism swells in the heart of the American Bear.
Indeed.
Beverly - Feb 08, 2011 10:19:33 pm PST #15184 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
sj, iron-ma to you!