tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794978458772149149.post3255393288910290090..comments2023-10-25T07:38:16.249-07:00Comments on Green Thoughts: Rate this, butthead.Renaissance Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06243095907452011303noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794978458772149149.post-89979824585869754382009-05-09T15:32:00.000-07:002009-05-09T15:32:00.000-07:00Somehow it is worse when a grad student is the per...Somehow it is worse when a grad student is the perpetrator. They can't be excused under the rubric of student silliness...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794978458772149149.post-74995338386931681552009-05-01T22:50:00.000-07:002009-05-01T22:50:00.000-07:00Dear DGS--
If you'd written as well, and as lucid...Dear DGS--<br /><br />If you'd written as well, and as lucidly, in your papers, you'd have got an A.<br /><br />Dr. GirlRenaissance Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06243095907452011303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794978458772149149.post-37429669447231316782009-05-01T21:46:00.000-07:002009-05-01T21:46:00.000-07:00Dear Dr. Girl,
After having read your letter, I t...Dear Dr. Girl,<br /><br />After having read your letter, I thought that you made some valid points that I would do well, honestly, to address.<br /><br />First, I understand your frustration in how I was unwilling to talk with you during office hours in order to discuss my concerns with the class. To be perfectly honest, as a disgruntled grad student, it's a lot easier to bitch about a class backstage than have to have a face-to-face confrontation. In retrospect, I should have come and talked to you early in the course. Then, perhaps with so small a class, we might have found a way for me to accommodate my attention-hungry, insecurities about academic rigor. I can only say in my defense that I am scared of my position in academic limbo--we disgruntled grad students are in the Awkward Adolescence of academia, and should be generally treated as if we were pimply teens at the prom.<br /><br />Of course, it doesn't help that, as a disgruntled grad student, I oscillate between being overconfident of what I think is my brilliant intellectual acumen and a sudden terror of being in the <1% of the population with grad school education.<br /><br />You know, it may just be that my platonic ideal of Graduate Class may be somewhat different from yours. Surely you, in your graduate experience, had teachers that you liked more than others? I don't expect to you change your curriculum, much less teaching philosophy, based on the caprices of each of the hundreds of students you teach. You can't, and no one can, win them all. It's incredible, even jaw-droppingly shocking, how many of them you do, have, and will win. But no meaningful win ever was unanimous. Think beginning of Paradise Lost.<br /><br />Finally, I can only apologize. I'm only now, in my part-time freshmen-teaching, realizing that teachers think about their students almost as much as students do their teachers. I'm still inclined to see life in an "us versus them" of students against teachers. If I were to think of you more as a colleague, I surely would have been more tactful. If I were to think of you as a human, I would have been more kind.<br /><br />Hell, it turns out, is other people. Specially people like me.<br /><br />Ex, oh, ex, oh, <br /><br />Disgruntled Grad StudentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794978458772149149.post-45626056618974992432009-04-30T15:57:00.000-07:002009-04-30T15:57:00.000-07:00Again -- I know people . . .Again -- I know people . . .Blue Cheesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07322100529304674359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794978458772149149.post-23851188233180187462009-04-29T19:08:00.000-07:002009-04-29T19:08:00.000-07:00Well said, well said. A perfect world would allow...Well said, well said. A perfect world would allow--nay! ensure!--that said butthead would have to read these comments aloud. In front of a jury of his peers. Boo, passive aggressive student. Boo, I say.Lisa B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10646181766775405935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794978458772149149.post-74037317206958595872009-04-29T18:54:00.000-07:002009-04-29T18:54:00.000-07:00Hey, that was me above. I pressed submit by mista...Hey, that was me above. I pressed submit by mistake. Sigh.Inkhttp://inktopia7.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794978458772149149.post-15654046230836747502009-04-29T18:53:00.000-07:002009-04-29T18:53:00.000-07:00Sounds like someone's "evaluating" you when they s...Sounds like someone's "evaluating" you when they should be evaluating themselves! SO frustrating...<br /><br />((((Ren Girl))))<br /><br />ps: My word verification is "robfo" which of course sounds like "mofo" and I wanted to tell you just in case his name was Rob and then you could laugh. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1794978458772149149.post-74659155717477363312009-04-29T16:58:00.000-07:002009-04-29T16:58:00.000-07:00Ha ha! Student evaluations in hell...I'd like to s...Ha ha! Student evaluations in hell...I'd like to see those. <br />"It's not so much hell, but more like Phoenix on steroids."<br />I have no doubt that this type of student would find things to complain about.<br />I'm with you: screw 'em!!Dr Writehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16408687271313205905noreply@blogger.com