One of the students who never bothered showing up to class missed the mid-term. He came to me wanting to have a make up. I told him hell no as I announced the date of mid-term each class for several weeks before.
“One of the students who never bothered showing up to class missed the mid-term. He came to me wanting to have a make up. I told him hell no as I announced the date of mid-term each class for several weeks before.”
As a TA getting my MS in CS, myself and the Prof I TAed for heard every excuse in the book. (I also was propositioned by a female student who wanted to exchange sex for an automatic A in my course, but I turned her down because she was only a Grade C looker at best, so she dropped my class and moved on to the next TA [true story].
the class was Fortran 101 for the masses, and i was a hotshot programmer/analyst, so i designed and implemented an automatic grading program in which programming assignments were submitted to the grading system, which inputted different datasets each time to the student programs, and compared the output of the programs to the correctly computed answers and assigned a grade based on how many cases were correct.
Students got ALL of the programming assignments at the beginning of the semester, and each assignment had an automatic submission cutoff date programmed into the automatic grader that applied to ALL students and could only be changed for all students at once. Students got a fixed number of tries for each assignment.
The Prof LOVED the system because it pretty much stopped all the whining excuses, and I loved it because it relieved me of the tedium of grading hundreds of programming assignments. In fact, the Prof relieved of TA duties for one semester to develop and test the automatic programming system ...