Friday, February 03, 2006
Why does Kansas torment me?
I love teaching freshmen. They're so cute and dumb. I'm constantly torn between pinching their cheeks and just punching them really hard in the face.
Student turned in the first paper of the semester. It's sort of a throwaway assignment; they're given a prompt to respond to on the first day of class, so they're writing on something they may not know anything about. I don't expect them to be brilliant. This particular paper was great in its off-the-wallness. The poor guy came in for a conference with me and I couldn't stop laughing uncontrollably during our conference. And it wasn't his invokation of both the Catholic church and Harry Potter as moral guides. It was his first two sentences:
"The most important parts of human identity are personality and rationality. Without these, we are nothing but dust in the wind."
"So, uh, yeah, your paper was- bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - I'm sorry, that's unprofessional of m- ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Student turned in the first paper of the semester. It's sort of a throwaway assignment; they're given a prompt to respond to on the first day of class, so they're writing on something they may not know anything about. I don't expect them to be brilliant. This particular paper was great in its off-the-wallness. The poor guy came in for a conference with me and I couldn't stop laughing uncontrollably during our conference. And it wasn't his invokation of both the Catholic church and Harry Potter as moral guides. It was his first two sentences:
"The most important parts of human identity are personality and rationality. Without these, we are nothing but dust in the wind."
"So, uh, yeah, your paper was- bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - I'm sorry, that's unprofessional of m- ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
