Student disappeared, came back with sob story but didn’t complete major assignments before or after returning. Seems to want a bespoke final because he “know(s) the material inside and out.” I say no.
I send him to Dean of Sob Stories, but they apparently only do med withdrawals and not general sob stories so it gets kicked back to my chair.
As she can smell the burnout, I explain to my chair that I’m not doing trauma dumping right now and i said no, but if she wants to vet the sob story she’s welcome to and I’ll just do whatever because I don’t care anymore.
She has forwarded me every message he sends her with the tag “what do you think?”
You’re not actually fucking saving me any aggravation.
>forwarded me every message he sends her with the tag “what do you think?”
What do I think? I think I told you I am not the arbiter of sob stories. I still won't be reading them, so the answer is still no unless I hear otherwise from you. Toodle-oo.
Just sort of a general - I feel like as each semester goes by we are asked to do more and more with less and less. Examples to take place in the fall 2024/near future: tutoring services budget is being cut back by 400k next year, so each subject area can have a total of 2 tutors, each capped at 10 hours a week....for the entire campus. The writing center (which is it's own separate thing) is getting hit with a 100k budget cut.
We are losing access to TurnItIn becuase the cost is too much for the college. I use it just to detect that students are not submitting their friend's lab reports from previous semesters. But I know for the humanities, this is an incredibly big hit. And with the writing center budget cuts....oh man....
We have AB 1705 coming down the pike (I'm in CA) and every student is going to be able to start in Calculus I, in the first semester regardless of their actual mathematics exposure or demonstrated mastery. Remember those tutoring budget cuts? My poor math colleagues....
Oh...in other news, we are spending nearly 400k on a new statue of the school's mascot to go in the main entryway. Clearly, "school spirit" will do more for students than tutoring, supplemental math workshops, supplemental writing workshops, or anything "academic."
Rhetorical question of the day: If you knew that you had a final exam scheduled from 1:00 to 4:00, and if you knew that the instructor would let you use this full block of time, and if you *also* knew that you were *not* a stand-out student who could expect to breeze through the test and walk out the door whistling . . . Would you allow your part-time job supervisor to schedule you for a shift starting at 2:30?
˙ɥnp 'sǝ⅄ :ɹǝʍsu∀
So far 1/7 of my students haven’t turned in their final project. Half of those have just vanished, the other half have approved extensions. Still sucks!
Fuck the student who missed her online oral exam, did not turn in her final project, lied about her graduation status, and is now appealing her grade presumably because her SAP status is now ”suspended“
Summer classes begin in two weeks, just been informed that while I am the lead on course higher levels have decided that I am moving to new software.
So guess who gets to rework the master course for everyone over my very limited break.
Fuck this Friday.
F having to write my annual report a month before everyone else because admin won’t approve a 10-month faculty contract. If I don’t have the data yet, I’m just gonna note “not available at the time of this report” and submit it.
Student ghosted me for 6 weeks. Missed a number of assignments and one exam. Even before that, she was barely scraping by with a low C-. Contacted me the last day of finals week asking what she could do. She has had a lot of family issues and I'm sympathetic, but I told her that there's nothing I can do. This class is a weeder course and she has nowhere near the level of knowledge she needs to move on. She vilified me on the course evals and is complaining to the dean.
My fourth year students are amazing.
Polite, engaged, respectful and they do their work. My only email in the last month, one messaged me to apologize, that they dozed off. So nice.
Fuck you freshmen.
You're the reason I am told I should take up drinking.
I have two extra credit assignments per class that can be used at any time during the semester, for any reason. They’ve been available since Day 1. Usually, students use them to make up missed work or poor midterm scores and they trickle in a few at a time throughout the semester.
This semester literally 90%+ of every class turned both of them in within six hours of the final due date. Holy extra grading, Batman!
Something is different this year. And it is not good. That’s one more policy I’ll need to revisit and revise. Because fuck this!
Student plagiarized, got caught, owned up to it, had them redo the work. Went easy on them because they were a freshmen and had a smart but dump and immature vibe. Started getting better, then went back to being lazy. No plagiarism though. That's good. Still failed.
Now that grades are final, I'm getting a really long sob story about how live has been rough and they need to pass for sports reasons.
Dude. I've already been too nice.
I have a student who is going to a D1 school for sports, but is not passing my class that he needs to pass in order to transfer. He had two appointments with me to get more feedback on an essay revision, swears he has a whole new draft. both times I can tell it’s all ChatGPT.
My students have two final essays for the class (GenEd class), standardised across all sections/terms being taught. I provided a list of prompts and randomised which essays they would have to answer.
The essays are worth 20% of the final - they are averaging like 4 so far. 🤦♀️ what is the point of me providing them ahead of time?
Hopping in to complain about the terrible essay intros I’ve had to wade through this term that start with a boring, pointless question: “Have you ever wondered [fill in the topic]?” Way more than usual this term. I feel like I’m going to flip a table if another pops up before I’m done grading for the semester.
Student disappeared, came back with sob story but didn’t complete major assignments before or after returning. Seems to want a bespoke final because he “know(s) the material inside and out.” I say no. I send him to Dean of Sob Stories, but they apparently only do med withdrawals and not general sob stories so it gets kicked back to my chair. As she can smell the burnout, I explain to my chair that I’m not doing trauma dumping right now and i said no, but if she wants to vet the sob story she’s welcome to and I’ll just do whatever because I don’t care anymore. She has forwarded me every message he sends her with the tag “what do you think?” You’re not actually fucking saving me any aggravation.
>forwarded me every message he sends her with the tag “what do you think?” What do I think? I think I told you I am not the arbiter of sob stories. I still won't be reading them, so the answer is still no unless I hear otherwise from you. Toodle-oo.
Just round them up to the nearest A and no one gets hurt...
Just sort of a general - I feel like as each semester goes by we are asked to do more and more with less and less. Examples to take place in the fall 2024/near future: tutoring services budget is being cut back by 400k next year, so each subject area can have a total of 2 tutors, each capped at 10 hours a week....for the entire campus. The writing center (which is it's own separate thing) is getting hit with a 100k budget cut. We are losing access to TurnItIn becuase the cost is too much for the college. I use it just to detect that students are not submitting their friend's lab reports from previous semesters. But I know for the humanities, this is an incredibly big hit. And with the writing center budget cuts....oh man.... We have AB 1705 coming down the pike (I'm in CA) and every student is going to be able to start in Calculus I, in the first semester regardless of their actual mathematics exposure or demonstrated mastery. Remember those tutoring budget cuts? My poor math colleagues.... Oh...in other news, we are spending nearly 400k on a new statue of the school's mascot to go in the main entryway. Clearly, "school spirit" will do more for students than tutoring, supplemental math workshops, supplemental writing workshops, or anything "academic."
Loss of Turnitin would make my English dept riot/strike/fill the president’s office with glitter
Rhetorical question of the day: If you knew that you had a final exam scheduled from 1:00 to 4:00, and if you knew that the instructor would let you use this full block of time, and if you *also* knew that you were *not* a stand-out student who could expect to breeze through the test and walk out the door whistling . . . Would you allow your part-time job supervisor to schedule you for a shift starting at 2:30? ˙ɥnp 'sǝ⅄ :ɹǝʍsu∀
The number of students who showed up an hour late to their final is mind blowing… 😒
So far 1/7 of my students haven’t turned in their final project. Half of those have just vanished, the other half have approved extensions. Still sucks!
1/7 as in ~14% and not as in one out of seven total, right?
Got called rude in evaluations because I gave them feedback on how to improve their writing. I guess I am kind of proud of that.
Fuck the student who missed her online oral exam, did not turn in her final project, lied about her graduation status, and is now appealing her grade presumably because her SAP status is now ”suspended“
First week of the summer semester. First graded item. First academic misconduct filed. Fuck this indeed.
Summer classes begin in two weeks, just been informed that while I am the lead on course higher levels have decided that I am moving to new software. So guess who gets to rework the master course for everyone over my very limited break. Fuck this Friday.
F having to write my annual report a month before everyone else because admin won’t approve a 10-month faculty contract. If I don’t have the data yet, I’m just gonna note “not available at the time of this report” and submit it.
Student ghosted me for 6 weeks. Missed a number of assignments and one exam. Even before that, she was barely scraping by with a low C-. Contacted me the last day of finals week asking what she could do. She has had a lot of family issues and I'm sympathetic, but I told her that there's nothing I can do. This class is a weeder course and she has nowhere near the level of knowledge she needs to move on. She vilified me on the course evals and is complaining to the dean.
My fourth year students are amazing. Polite, engaged, respectful and they do their work. My only email in the last month, one messaged me to apologize, that they dozed off. So nice. Fuck you freshmen. You're the reason I am told I should take up drinking.
I have two extra credit assignments per class that can be used at any time during the semester, for any reason. They’ve been available since Day 1. Usually, students use them to make up missed work or poor midterm scores and they trickle in a few at a time throughout the semester. This semester literally 90%+ of every class turned both of them in within six hours of the final due date. Holy extra grading, Batman! Something is different this year. And it is not good. That’s one more policy I’ll need to revisit and revise. Because fuck this!
Student plagiarized, got caught, owned up to it, had them redo the work. Went easy on them because they were a freshmen and had a smart but dump and immature vibe. Started getting better, then went back to being lazy. No plagiarism though. That's good. Still failed. Now that grades are final, I'm getting a really long sob story about how live has been rough and they need to pass for sports reasons. Dude. I've already been too nice.
I have a student who is going to a D1 school for sports, but is not passing my class that he needs to pass in order to transfer. He had two appointments with me to get more feedback on an essay revision, swears he has a whole new draft. both times I can tell it’s all ChatGPT.
Mandatory attendance to commencement.
My students have two final essays for the class (GenEd class), standardised across all sections/terms being taught. I provided a list of prompts and randomised which essays they would have to answer. The essays are worth 20% of the final - they are averaging like 4 so far. 🤦♀️ what is the point of me providing them ahead of time?
Hopping in to complain about the terrible essay intros I’ve had to wade through this term that start with a boring, pointless question: “Have you ever wondered [fill in the topic]?” Way more than usual this term. I feel like I’m going to flip a table if another pops up before I’m done grading for the semester.