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Very creative writing, but way off topic. His paper did not answer the requirements of that assignment.
The teacher was sort of foolish, to post this for public viewing and debate. That teacher has ceded much of his authority to popular opinion and the number of ‘likes’.


9 posted on 02/11/2020 8:55:26 AM PST by lee martell
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At least the student knows the correct plural of “nemesis.”


70 posted on 02/11/2020 11:09:09 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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One of my best friends was going to college around the same time I was, and he was a Psychology/Philosophy major. He had to type a thesis for a course called “Existential Humanistic Psychology” or something like that in order to graduate, but...he didn’t know how to type. I did, and had access to an electric typewriter, so I told him I could type it for him.

He gave me his handwritten copy of the lengthy document, and his writing was so illegible I simply couldn’t read it. He said “No problem, I’ll dictate it to you!” (He bragged with some perverse pride that his handwriting resembled marks made by a chicken who had been grabbed by the neck, feet dipped in ink, and walked across paper! I suspect it made him proud simply because it made people laugh every time he said it...)

So, he begins dictating, and I begin typing, and the content of this paper seemed so bizarre to me, I had to keep interrupting him to ask what the hell this or that means, followed by a comment about the strange courses he had to take to graduate his major. We got it typed out in time.

When I asked him later how he did on the paper, he said that he did okay, but a guy in his class “Joe” didn’t do so well.

“Joe” was one of these guys who did a bit too many illegal substances, and came across as a total burnout. He wore an overcoat in nearly all weather, buttoned all the way up to his neck. Very strange guy. I met him once or twice, and he didn’t seem stupid, just...damaged somehow.

Anyway, my friend’s thesis was probably twenty or thirty pages, and this guy “Joe” handed in a thesis that was one page long.

On that one page, my friend told me that he had written a single sentence: “Because the length of this thesis is so short, it demonstrates that I understand the subject completely.”

My friend’s face lit up as he described this, and he said he thought “Joe’s” paper was brilliant, and that it DID demonstrate he knew exactly what the subject of the course was about!

“Joe” got an “F”!

If there had been an Internet back then, I could have posted the Tommy Lee Jones “This is my surprised face.” graphic!


79 posted on 02/11/2020 12:45:44 PM PST by rlmorel (Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
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