Now that I said I'd write this post many times announced, repeatedly postponed, I am obliged to stick me.
Young Students who pass by here, I beg you, do not indignant! The idiots I'm talking about are definitely not you. While some duties may eventually allow to assess the degree of stupidity of people who have written (again ambiguous phrase, since it can denote both the designer of duty than is required to do so - and, for this which is to detect the bullshit, it works both ways), but I must sincerely proclaim from the rooftops that I've never met.
short, I am talking about my own stupidity and not that of others, whoever they are.
I do not know if I have already deplored by my lack of futisme (= characteristic of one who is smart - yes, I just invented it: so what!). I must say that I have done so much elsewhere that I think the world is aware of the very bottom of my potential Crafty '.
Let me introduce you to the equation : when you're in contention, you need time to work your thesis. Yes, but here it is: you also have to ensure progress and thus to prepare. This is where, if you're Crafty ', and you find you rusez a way to spend minimal time in the case, without that you ended up with a course with no shit.
Except that here it is: trickery, I do not know. So I start bumping into the wall and, once I got hurt, I say "uh, yes, well, wait, let's see if we can not help it, ok?" And so, for my literature class, I am compelled to make, each time with me, a true compound comment then have it done during my students. It's beautiful. It's educational. And I hope it has the least interested, since they have hardly dried (six defaulting on a class of forty in the afternoon, it's not so bad, especially compared to my other courses: post on that to come). That said, I was a crazy time and eaten, when, chatting with a friend, I learned that he would raise his own explanation in the text in front of everyone, I thought: "Ah yes, c 'is smart! resumption of explanation is less time to prepare a commentary composed! I should have thought, by Jove! ".
(" The writer "photo Gilles Chiroleu; source: Flickr)
For the duty to make the same thing. I gave them made a comment to make at home. It was a good idea (yes, yes, I still do) and they had almost two months to do (so I was human, that being said, two months, it was great they had opened their ears the first course I can not tell you the googly eyes when I said "And I remind you that you should make me your comment in two weeks!" I repeated yet whenever new arrived in my courses, either at the beginning of the first four sessions ...). Except:
1) I learned that when they threaten "beware, if you do not make me on that day, I put zero!" Is like for kids, must be closely decided to do so. Otherwise, when the big day, you are missing ten copies, you end up like a fool. Special mention to the student who came to me and ask, "Madam, a comment made, it is an abstract?", Whose eyes filled with tears when I said "Well, no comment compound is a compound and a summary comment is a summary " to whom I gave two days time and I still do not report (but give me something, damn! even two lines! Otherwise, I'm really forced you to zero), while staring at me throughout the correction.
2) is better, teaching and everything, but it then makes a sacred pile of papers to correct. And as you might guess, since I do not fix the tear, it took me quite some time. Pedagogy: probably 1, but effective for my thesis: surely 0.
So you can imagine my rage when I realized that two of them had pumped their introduction on the web! The first was not very smart, he used an adjective in its etymological sense very rare: it was too good to be true, especially considering the rest of the copy, and my friend Google confirmed my suspicions. I scoured, I've pasted 3, having been reluctant to put 0. Anyway, his comment was worth 6. Yes, but, here, the second copy that I did it, it was worth 13 and, like the first, she had pumped the introduction (I have elsewhere In both cases, written very cretinism, early in the margin "very good introduction! pity that you do not enter the extract to comment!"). I ranted again, scoured, stomped, yelled my First on Twitter, then, once subsided, I felt bad, I told myself that it was still not right and I've put their true note in their written rouste pasting a big red pen stroke. At the time of the correction underway, when I launched "NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER (copy anything on the internet)," I got three seconds of incredible silence and attentive, first and last of the semester.
I also learned (yes, the correction is teaching for the teacher too) it was not clear to continue its correction look like much when student protests the note of his girlfriend, missing that day, who had obviously read the text very diagonal cons and make a nonsense absurd and incomprehensible, which earned him 6. I had the choice to stop, telling him to calm down and address his girlfriend if she had questions about his duty and risk that it turns into scandal public or act as if nothing had happened. I finally left to calm his neighbor, which she did in five minutes ("Listen, you do not go again! Calm down!"), but there was a time when I found myself dry in the middle of a sentence: "Uh, wait ... what was I saying ...?".
I have the impression of having been a conscientious teacher, but not very smart and, finally, I want to thank my teacher paleo : next to some entries, the Visigoth and Beneventan is the cat pee!
