Your smackdown of the day

[DontSayBanana]

I'm trying to figure out what Bananas post had to do with the topic.

Or is he simply sprouting personal information out there for digestion and pity ? 

Option 3: post count and typing practice.

As this post is option 4: self-deprecating humor.

[CountDeMoney]

Young people suck.

MBA students suck, but MBA students that refer to themselves as MBA Candidates suck even more.  Way to go, Prof!

[Caliga]

MBA students suck, but MBA students that refer to themselves as MBA Candidates suck even more.  Way to go, Prof!

Even worse are MBA graduates who sign all of their emails as:

CountDeMoney, M.B.A.

We had one of those as a saleswoman at RHI, but then she got fired for having a low monthly GM and constantly angering clients with her lack of tact and judgment.

[Jaron]

MBA students suck, but MBA students that refer to themselves as MBA Candidates suck even more.  Way to go, Prof!

Even worse are MBA graduates who sign all of their emails as:

CountDeMoney, M.B.A.

We had one of those as a saleswoman at RHI, but then she got fired for having a low monthly GM and constantly angering clients with her lack of tact and judgment.

She earned it! 

[garbon]

Whereas J-dawg has never rightfully earned anything.

[Caliga]

We also had a guy here who signed his name:

Jaron, P.M.P.

But he got fired for trading stocks at work and running some sort of business on the side.

In fact, it seems like the more initials people list after their name, the shittier they actually are.

[Jaron]

Whereas J-dawg has never rightfully earned anything.

What the fuck?

[garbon]

The truth, pass it on.

[Alcibiades]

 

[HisMajestyBOB]

We also had a guy here who signed his name:

Jaron, P.M.P.

But he got fired for trading stocks at work and running some sort of business on the side.

In fact, it seems like the more initials people list after their name, the shittier they actually are.

That's why no one likes the House of Lords.

[Scipio]

As an adjunct at two local unis (one public, one private), I try very hard to make sure that if you do not attend my class regularly or on time you fail the course.  I do this not by taking attendance, but by putting important information that I will test on in the first five minutes of class.

This has paid off in students being more timely, and paying attention.  I like the cut of this professor's jib.  Huzzah, Prof. Galloway.  I hope that you did not publish this, since it constitutes a violation of FERPA.

[Korea]

Student is an idiot for thinking anyone at his university gives a god damn shit what his opinions are.

I'm not that surprised. And I can perfecly understand why more and more teachers are fed up of students who enter colleges thinking these are a diploma mill to breeze through.

Basically came with the change in perception among students, from people who are there to actually learn something worthwhile, i.e. students, to people who pay to acquire a piece of paper that will allow them to work in such and such fields, i.e. customers. And thus yes, of course their opinion is important - else they'll go study elsewhere and bring their money with them.

My teachers used to call them "étudiants mélamines" (melamine students). Because you see them only at the exams, when they come to beg for their courses' notes, or to whine about their B-.

Thus, many students behave like customers in a store in some free market, totally uncaring about the course and the teacher and focusing instead of making it easier to pass with the least effort possible to acquire their diploma. After all, they pay for it right? They are entitled to pass. Who the teacher think he is to flunk them? He is there to provide a service - the course - to allow them to get the damn diploma.

They shop around the courses in the first weeks, to see if they like the teacher and the content of the course (by that I mean, easy enough), and when they finally stay, they pressure the teacher into putting his notes in Powerpoint or printed and available, so they don't need to actually attend the classes, and even passed exams to study the answers. Nowadays, personal notes are sometimes even permitted into exams, which of course includes the notes printed directly from the teacher's PP presentation.

And (from experience) they lash out at assistants for any grade they deem insufficient for their papers that they think is so stellar when in fact it is full of grammatical errors (because they don't actually review their own text, it costs time, so they use automatic correction) and circular rhetoric (because babbling around a subject without getting to the point still gives some points, right?). And our teachers pressure the assistants as well, because they have an average ratio of good grades versus bad grades to respect so that they pass their own internal evaluation.

I took only one such contract as corrector, because I saw very quickly that I was too hard-ass (i.e. a good corrector) to do such a job full of shit, and I tend to punish ignorance rather than reward it. When the work was good and I saw the student made a worthy effort in his or her argument, however, I was very generous with the grades, so it evened out.

tl;dr

[Korea]

I don't get it. 

[Admiral Yi]

I don't get it. 

80 students does not necessarily equal 80% of the class.

[HVC]

I don't get it. 

80=/=80%