I Am Not Shitting You
I just received this email at 6:31 pm tonight.
I WISH I was making this up. God, do I wish.
Dear Instructor,
I just got back in town this afternoon. Some of the girls in my class today told me that we had a test yesterday. I also missed a day last week and I am now totally off schedule. I somehow missed the fact that we had a test on yesterday. I did not even receive a study guide.
Please advise if I will be able to make-up the test. If so, please let me know what I will need to study and in what type of format. I have not yet, but I will go online to see if the study guide is available.
I am sorry. I was totally dumb founded when some of the girls in my class today told me about the test.
Thanks!
I’m going to find that vodka in the cupboard.
Posted by Melissa on March 27th, 2007 under Histoire d'Art
March 27th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Gawdamighty! This, this right here, is why I don’t talk or think about people I dislike. Because sure as shit, those fuckers will call me within 24 hours.
Because the Universe is cranky like that.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Man, now I am wondering if any of my professors ridiculed me on the internet . . .
(I may have deserved it from time to time.)
March 28th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Makes me afraid for the future.
I don’t know…why didn’t the idiot just GO TO CLASS and STUDY WHAT WAS TAUGHT?
I don’t know. Maybe it’s over simplification.
March 28th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
OK, I can’t keep quiet. I work in the college academic “area” and I have to say that students these days are 10 times dumber than they were when I started in this field 7 years ago. They are lazy and for some reason feel entitled that they should be handed an “A” on a silver platter without having to make any effort. OK, fine. Maybe not ALL but a majority. Responsibility, kids. Look it up in the dictionary.
I feel for you, Harpy, I do. I also know you have it really rough because these same idiots will be writing your evaluations at the end of the semester…
March 28th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
I knew from the title this would be an entertaing post. You didn’t disappoint. heehee.
March 29th, 2007 at 10:45 am
I’ll bet you didn’t know when you took on teaching college students that you would also be taking on helping to finish up the parenting of many children.
March 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Ha!
It should be noted that this student is in their late 30s or 40s.
March 29th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
“dumb founded”
HA! found dumb by a jury of the world-wide web. God bless vodka.
March 29th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
“[L]ate 30s or 40s”?
Whoa. Scary.
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
OK, so can I retract a daydream? Because last night when I was scrambling to finish designing an interminable catalog of reeeaally interesting packaging products, I thought, “I should be grading beautifully insightful art history essays by my students at the university where I don’t work because I don’t have a Ph.D.,nor even an M.A. yet, maybe when Molly’s in kindergarten… do I really want to go back to school…”
Thanks for the reality check;)
What a tool.
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Let me just say this, Heidi. 90% of the time, I love them. I adore and respect and am amazed by my students. Even those who come to the course without a lick of interest in art blow me away with their insights and observations.
I may have just fired up that daydream…but if you need something else to kill it, the job market BLOWS. There’s only 892526783583508 art historians for about 8 jobs.
April 8th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Maybe you know my roommate from college who never went to class and bought a fax machine so that she could have the professor send over notes from the classes she missed?
April 13th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
You think someone wipes her ass for her when she takes a dump?