I have two students who missed a quiz without giving me advance notice. My general rule is no makeup quizzes unless you've told me about your absence ahead of time and I've OKed it. Each of these two asked me if they could take a makeup. The quiz was on Monday, and I had OKed both of them to miss the previous Friday because they were sick, so I said OK, and we scheduled a time for them to come to my office to take the quiz. Neither one showed up.
I have finesse! I have finesse coming out of my bottom!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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. - Oct 27, 2010 5:10:39 am PDT #6734 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
smonster - Oct 27, 2010 5:49:39 am PDT #6735 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
There are stencils out there if you google. I just looked at an example and freehanded it - it was easier than I thought.
sumi - Oct 27, 2010 5:58:24 am PDT #6736 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
Dana - we started FY2011 in July!
Connie Neil - Oct 27, 2010 6:04:52 am PDT #6737 of 30000
brillig
Neither one showed up.
Sucks to be them, pity about the grade.
ChiKat - Oct 27, 2010 8:47:50 am PDT #6738 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Neither one showed up.
Sucks to be them, pity about the grade.
Seriously. Sounds like two zeroes to me.
omnis_audis - Oct 27, 2010 8:55:21 am PDT #6739 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Neither one showed up.I agree. Two no-shows, TWICE! Sounds like two zeros to me. When I was a guest instructor, I had 8 classes to teach all of audio for theater AND get them "designing" a scene, including editing of sound cues. Talk about 0-100mph in 10 seconds! So I put forth that there might be pop quizzes at random. Short things that count as 100% of your daily participation grade for the day. When the class was half empty (Monday morning)... Pop Quiz time! dudes, suck it up. I commuted 2 hours to get there by 9am. You can walk across campus to meet me there. Yes, I can be mean.
Hil R. - Oct 27, 2010 9:05:48 am PDT #6740 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yeah, I'm not giving second chances at makeup quizzes.
Trudy Booth - Oct 27, 2010 9:07:01 am PDT #6741 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Short of traction, yeah. Goose Egg.
amych - Oct 27, 2010 9:19:14 am PDT #6742 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Srsly. Zero on the makeup, and if you're lucky they walk away with a wee lesson on "an appointment is actually an appointment and not just a suggestion to drop by any time".
No guarantees on that one: plenty of faculty still haven't managed it. But it's nice to dream.
Ouise - Oct 27, 2010 9:46:05 am PDT #6743 of 30000
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
I was always astounded by how much effort students will put into begging for make-up tests or alternate credit (almost infinite) versus how much effort they will put into actually doing the make-up test or alternate credit (basically none).
Why bother?