lolaraincoat: (insane troll logic)
lolaraincoat ([personal profile] lolaraincoat) wrote2007-01-02 08:33 pm
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cake or death?

I had intended to do a year-in-review post, plus also complete a lengthy exegesis of Spike Lee's New Orleans documentary When the Levees Broke (to sum up: wow, wow, wow) but instead I am grading. The second-year survey class is making me suicidal again. We've had the by-now traditional references to "slaves who were badly paid" in the midterms and oh so many more facts which are not. Many of their essays have begun with the dread phrase "In today's society" despite my repeated and specific warnings that if they used that phrase they would be cruelly mocked in front of their peers. They all seem to agree that while everyone has a race, only women have gender; in fact, one student made that idea (and I use the word loosely) the basis of his paper's argument. I have to get through seventeen more of these essays before tomorrow morning's class. Or I guess I could just kill myself now. Augh!

[identity profile] goseaward.livejournal.com 2007-01-12 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it's transparent to neutrinos...

My favorite isn't even one of mine, but from a student in the general astronomy class that one of my fellow grad students had a couple of years ago. The student (not a native English speaker) wrote a brilliant essay, accurately describing our current theories on the beginnings of the universe, with the central concept being the Big Band Theory.

[identity profile] fishwhistle.livejournal.com 2007-01-12 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I've seen a cartoon of the Big Band Theory. (It shows the earth popping out of someone's trumpet.) I'm waiting to hear about the Big Bong Theory, though.