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Tell me about your CF students...

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GameOldBirdz · 05/10/2017 13:17

Me and a few colleagues last night were exchanging war stories of unbelievable and/of CF students.

Sadly these cases seem to be increasing with the marketisation of HE and there's lots of underlying misogyny but there's humour to be found in there somewhere...

One of my colleagues told us about her first lecture at a new university when she mentioned to the students that she'd just started. At the end of the lecture, a student handed her an evaluation of her performance Shock

Mine would be when a student showed up at my office at 9:45am nearly in tears begging me to let her use my office computer to print her essay (due in at 10am) as her printer had just broken and the computer room was full. I took pity on her. She sat down, plugged in her USB, opened Chrome and went to Facebook Shock. When I challenged her she said he had "plenty of time" as the essay submission was only down the corridor. I threw her out without her printed essay. She filed a formal complaint about me Hmm

Every year I get comments in my module evaluations about my hair. I do have funky hair and I do change it often but still...

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ommmward · 26/12/2018 14:22

On Christmas Eve, I had two urgent reference requests and a request to look at an essay plan. No, I have not written the references yet. Thoroughly ashamed of myself for even having read the emails.

sushisuperstar · 26/12/2018 21:22

I'll be dealing with mine when we officially go back.

DirtyDennis · 08/05/2019 15:57

My students have a deadline for a really short piece of work on Thursday.

Last night a posh male student emailed me, getting my name wrong, and asked (i) what was I expecting from it, (ii) how should he write this piece of work, (iii) was there a secret to it, and (iv) could he have past examples.

I told him to refer back to his notes from the class I ran specifically on this assignment. Surprise surprise, he wasn't "able" to attend that class.

Hmm
downcasteyes · 09/05/2019 07:37

Got an email from a student:

"As you are aware next Thursday is the deadline for our dissertations to be handed in, I just wanted to let you know that a lot of students will be unintentionally missing your seminar to go and celebrate the hand in. I know that myself and 9 others will be away in town for one of the lads birthdays and I've spoken to a few other people who say they will also be 'in the pub all afternoon and all night'."

I very much like the concept of 'unintentionally' missing my seminar. Grin

historyrocks · 09/05/2019 10:13

How on earth did you respond to that? Shock

purplepandas · 16/05/2019 21:31

That's classic!

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