Tuesday, 13 December 2005

Obsession

I’m unsure whether to chalk it up to extreme diligence or just paranoia on their parts, but my students here seem to be atypically obsessed with their final papers and the (open book, open notes) final in my research methods class. I had at least 20 (of 33) students in a review session Monday night, I met with about a half-dozen today, and I expect to meet with at least another half-dozen tomorrow. It’s not a bad thing, just not what I really expected.

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[Permalink] 1. dukereb wrote @ Wed, 14 Dec 2005, 11:27 am CST:

I went to grad. school at Duke after undergrad at Ole Miss. In my third year I was a teaching assistant in the Religion dept. and I couldn’t believe how focused the undergrads were. It was unbe-freaking-lievble. I had to give one kid an “F” on a paper and he came completely unglued on me. completely. he had never gotten less than a B before on anything.

 
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