Never again...

Assignment: Write an introduction to your end of semester portfolio explaining what you've learned.

Excerpt from student intro about a research paper on higher education:


In my research paper I continuously spelled collage “college”  I was so embarrassed when I realized I made that mistake so many times.  I’m never going to let something like that happen again. 
 

White professors grade easier

Assignment: Write a research paper about higher education

Excerpt from student essay: The white professors grade easier and are more lenient to the black students of the class and as a result have to be easier on everyone else. This theory was thrown out however because the results were the same where there were no minorities like brown and places of that nature.

Miss leading your teacher

Assignment: Write a research paper about higher education


Excerpt from student essay: Thus making the degree not worth the time and money put into it. Making this this Degree flawed and miss leading.

Going to collage

Assignment: Write a research paper about higher education

Excerpt from student essay: E Learners, an online company that helps student find suitable and trustworthy online collages and courses,  confirmed that there are twenty seven collages and universities that offer degrees in Equine studies  in the United States.

The long wrong

Assignment: Research paper about higher education.

Excerpt from student essay: Having a college degree does have it's economic benefits in the long wrong, but it's a process that takes time. Though employment opportunities are better when you have a degree of high education.

Guest post: Don't let murder happen to you!

Here's a special Easter treat for you, provided for your pleasure by Professor Z.


Excerpt from student essay:
People get murdered every single day for the wrong reasons, Don't allow murder to happen to you, or do not be one of the people who commit murder for the wrong reasons, always defend yourself and do what’s right and let god take care of the rest.

No one's impressed

Assignment: Write an essay comparing several types of mass communication.

Student response, in an essay about awards shows and, as it happens, Lady Gaga: No one’s fucking impressed, she’s still a hack and a terrible artists. The second example of dousche-baggetry comes from none other then Kanye West.

Sometimes I do miss caring

Assignment: Persuasive Essay about media's influence on society.

Excerpt from student essay on the bad influence of television:  She ended up miss caring early on, and there were never any real consequences, even when her husband and the boys mother found out about the affair.

History lesson: Slavery days

Assignment: Are the essays you read for homework narratives? Why or why not?

Selection from student response on an essay by Malcolm X: . The first essays talks about Malcolm X where he is targeting particularly the black movement during the slavery days.
 

Guest post: the joy of a coal miner striking gold

For your Sunday evening pleasure, Professor Z brings you this little moment of joy:

"My unique sister was fascinated by toilet paper, like it was a coal miner striking gold."

Guest post: i am from america

Despite an admittedly annoying twitch of constantly questioning the future of the human race, I do have some friends who agree to spend time with me. At least, online, anyway. One of my friends, who owns his own business and is wildly successful sent me this gem, which he received from someone seeking a job.

Now I know what happens to my students after they graduate!

"hello!

My name is D***** C******** and in attach files is my resume, because i would like to apply for a job. i may be an option for you, because i have the advantage of experience in the field, because i know the language. i am from america.

if u think u need help during the summer, just let me no."

The sweatiest man

Assignment: Narrative essay - Write a story about your life.

Student response (in an essay about her husband): He's the sweatiest man , through him I learn to be patient work my problem's out instead of  running away  from them.

sick of flower parts

Perhaps this was in honor of the recently-passed Valentine's Day?
In case you're wondering, a sepal is a part of a flower.

Assignment: Narrative essay - write a story about your life.

Excerpt from student essay: I had been getting this sepal for two weeks now, and frankly, I was sick of it.

Sick with phenomena

Assignment: Narrative essay - write a story about your life.

Sentence in student essay: All he said was that he was sick and that he had phenomena.

It begins: imformation

E-mail from a student. At least, I think it was from a student...

Dear best

do we have to cite where get the imformation from

Failure: As to why it is?

This is supposed to be the quiet before the storm of spring semester, the time when we professors reflect on all that we have done, tried to do and failed to do the previous semester, and make resolutions about how to reach the more than 50 percent of the class we clearly failed to reach the previous semester. We make promises to ourselves that we can inspire them this year. Really, we can.


Then we get e-mails like this from students who missed nearly half the class periods and did not turn in the final portfolio (which is more than half the final grade):


"It has come to my attention that my final grade is recorded as an F. I was wondering as to why it is recorded as thus."


And it all comes crashing down.