Saturday, October 30, 2004
On behalf of all the people who do their homework, shut up...
On wednesday, in my logic tutorial, we get back our exams.
I lost five marks to an ambiguously worded question (marks I wrestled back on the strenght of my argument) and I was sort of pissed about it.
"Well, what the professor was looking for was idiomatic sentences, so we deducted marks for unnatural wordings." my T.A. explained.
"Well then she should have written idiomatic on the exam," I snapped, "The question asks for clear English sentences, and my sentences are clear and in English."
"well think of it this way, if everyone gets really high marks, they can't have courses graduation where everyone gets a nintey-plus. So it'll just get harder later on."
"Well then lets make the tests harder!" I said.
Anyway, after class, this guy comes up to me and says "Hey man, on behalf of those of us getting sixties in the class, don't complain man!"
This is the same guy who said to our T.A. "Well, I can't really do this problem because I just can't memorize stuff, so, like, I'm a bit behind I guess."
Can't memorize stuff? It's a wonder he can even find the classroom.
Anyway, I have no tolerance for mediocrity. I'm not paying $480 to be bored so some dipshit who doesn't do his readings pr problem sets can get a B-. Live in the land of the D, doofus. You deserve it.
-Trevor
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I lost five marks to an ambiguously worded question (marks I wrestled back on the strenght of my argument) and I was sort of pissed about it.
"Well, what the professor was looking for was idiomatic sentences, so we deducted marks for unnatural wordings." my T.A. explained.
"Well then she should have written idiomatic on the exam," I snapped, "The question asks for clear English sentences, and my sentences are clear and in English."
"well think of it this way, if everyone gets really high marks, they can't have courses graduation where everyone gets a nintey-plus. So it'll just get harder later on."
"Well then lets make the tests harder!" I said.
Anyway, after class, this guy comes up to me and says "Hey man, on behalf of those of us getting sixties in the class, don't complain man!"
This is the same guy who said to our T.A. "Well, I can't really do this problem because I just can't memorize stuff, so, like, I'm a bit behind I guess."
Can't memorize stuff? It's a wonder he can even find the classroom.
Anyway, I have no tolerance for mediocrity. I'm not paying $480 to be bored so some dipshit who doesn't do his readings pr problem sets can get a B-. Live in the land of the D, doofus. You deserve it.
-Trevor
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