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I certainly didn’t design it that way. There are no trick questions. It’s all matching and multiple choice. Most of the questions come straight from the review games and practice problems, which is all we did during dead week. I even showed them the actual exam two weeks prior!

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The course grades are still skewed towards the higher end, but most are Cs.

Just a smidge of applied reasoning in maybe 3 of the questions.

There was no single question everyone missed.

This has never happened to me before.

It’s a required 200 level course most students would rather not take.

Finals week. End of my first year. Definitely need a break. Teaching over the summer. Four Preps for the fall. Professional certification training over the summer. Not going to get a break. Want to strangle every freshman who can’t decipher the finals schedule and every grade grubber who asks if I’ll round up.

When I was a student, I never would have dreamed of asking a professor to help me operate my laptop. I might as well have asked my cat. Now I’m a professor, and these students are just as helpless as their grandparents!

Do I really need to spell this out?

It’s an in-person class. We haven’t taken any exams online. All they are doing is casting suspicion on themselves. These requests aren’t exactly coming from the cream of the crop, if you know what I mean.

If you just want job skills, go to trade school. We are educating you here, not training. There’s a difference.

I’ve been floating the idea of converting my homework problems into ungraded practice problem for which I will provide feedback as requested. Everyone keeps giving me a look like I’m some kind of alien that just stepped out of a flying saucer 🛸 And yet, no one has tried to talk me out of it…

I was in Air Force security forces. Once I got paired with a guy who was way overdue for a humbling experience and broke his ankle during some self defense training. Another time the guy conducting the training singled me out to bully for some reason. I think because my gf was there and he liked her. Anyway, that was baton training. He was holding a bag next to his leg and I “missed” and hit his arm, full speed. No consequences or investigation either time.

Why are we empowering children like this? They have no frame of reference.

I am a newish professor. I teach a very popular class, but I also teach an unpopular class. One of my students in the popular class confided in me that he was talking to another student in my unpopular class, I came up, and the headline says the rest.

I don’t think this student was lying to me.

I don’t really get why the unpopular class is so unpopular, other than the subject matter. I don’t change teaching styles from class to class. They are both 200 level.

I’d be lying if I said this just rolled off my back like it probably should. I work very hard to make sure my students have everything they need to be successful in my courses. I ask them about themselves and try to encourage them along their path. I’m just inexperienced with this kind of mysterious vitriol, I guess. I don’t care for it.

About half of my homework assignments, which I create myself and generally require be done in Excel, are now clearly more AI than student work. It is very irritating wasting my time giving feedback on these.

I know that if I don't assign homework and instead just give practice problems and solutions, most students will not bother with it. I will then get the shocked Pikachu face from them when they bomb their exams, upon which most of their grade would be based in this scenario. It'd also result in a bunch of whining in the course evals and from the administration regarding retention.