Dont get me started on students
I lecture in a university near Paris, and if the students would just put half the effort into their assignments as they put into whining at me when their work comes back covered in red, they'd breeze through the course.

If you're a student, remember that while you have the right to an education, you don't have the automatic right to a qualification; the latter you have to actually earn.
(lolwhites, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:05, 5 replies)

Where?
I think that there ought to be a b3ta Stroppy Academics club.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:14, closed)

Count me in!
"We have decided there was no point in coming to the tutorial" is not a valid reason for not coming to the tutorial. Democracy is not a feature of my timetabling.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:20, closed)

Somewhere in the banlieu. Gaz me if you want to know where. And you?
(lolwhites, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:23, closed)

unless
you're an american undergrad. (in the state I'm in anyway)
who seem to be a bunch of well groomed wankers who drive expensive cars, drink excessively, and spend a lot of time waiting to speak to my boss (a professor) to see if he can regrade their assignment because a D isn't quite what they are paying to get.
A good friend of mine, who teaches at Harvard, assures me that it's the same there - he has been disciplined for grading too harshly, as biochemistry students should not be expected to know about the Krebs cycle apparently.
( ascorbate, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 18:28, closed)

I've heard the same about Harvard
Kind of expected that English students ought to better than they do...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 9:26, closed)