15 February 2008¶ Non-traditional Students

(For those of you who don’t read my Twitter1 posts2):

18-year-old students who Just Don’t Get It are frustrating.
45-year-old students who Just Don’t Get It drive me to insanity.

It=Your grade depends on following the written instructions. The ones in the syllabus and on the assignment sheet. This ain’t jazz, pal3.

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1 Apologies to Thom who, as far as I can tell, is the only person who actually reads my Twitter, um, words. Not that I write Twitter, er, messages with sufficient frequency to justify making any effort to do so. But sometimes I do go on a spurt and put out some amusing whining for a bit.

2 Are they Twitter posts? A Twitter stream? Twitter entries? Regardless, I refuse to call them “Twitter tweets.” I am not a cartoon character.

3 Yes, I am grading right now. Yes, I am being driven quickly to insanity. I think it is in Texas. Or Arizona.

Comment

  1. Hey — what am I? Chopped spam? I frequent your blog. I’m the one that told you it was missing. :)

    — Ellen Patton · Feb 16, 08:53 PM · #

  2. EP, you’re no student of mine. If anything, I’ve got plenty to learn from you. The day I have to grade your papers, however—well, we’ll just see what happens.

    — jeff · Feb 16, 10:26 PM · #

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