Apparently, our (as in the ones in the class I teach) students have been operating under the impression that assignments should not require work outside of lab times. This is such an extensive belief that we have had to note that outside work is required on the next assignment.

Christ Almighty!

wow that is rediculous...

Dear Lord.

The first student has asked for an extension on this lab. He's got a freaking week and a half left to work on the damn assignment. He's got (at least) two hours of office hours left for each TA to talk to, a lab hour, and plenty of time to e-mail the TA's any questions.

What. The. ****.

tell him you'll give him an extension if he'll give you his left testicle.

And then take a picture of the small glass jar the next day.

You were. Everyone was.

I don't ask for extensions.

WOlfy Teaches? wow.

Is this high school or College?

if it's high school I can understand... everyone's a general OMQWTH with everything at that age.

...

He's a Teacher's Assistant.

A Massistant if you will.

I never did anything like that, but I've been in classes with plenty of people who did.

I'm a TA for a university course.

Heh, freshmen are funny. They are sill stuck in "Junior High mode" aka "immature little punk mode" so they usually need a good whooping from the kids in the higher grades before they wise up and learn to act mature. The transition from freshman to sophmore is always an outstanding one because sometimes its quite drastic for some kids, lol.

Your title is a lovely shade of maroon.

and yours is a garish shade of red.

And your title is a painful shade of red.

Ohhh, insta-post burn!

except i beat you to it, zell, and used a better word.

tsssss...

(that was a sizzling sound)

Your title is a lovely shade of moron.

[ God damn, why do you people wait to post now? ]

The whole stupid freshmen thing is something I've never understood, because at my school the freshmen are usually way more mature than the upperclasses.

lawl do the assisgnment 5min before its due is what we did right?

Hah, I never even went to the CS 101 lab. I looked up and submitted the assignment online, sometimes before my lab period even came up in the week (mine was later in the week, thus the assignment was already posted by the time I had to go to class). No point sitting through a pointless 2 hours of the TA messing around on the computer trying to show the incompetent kids how to do the lab when I could just look it up in the book.

Which reminds me of a funny story in that class. For our last project we had to do something with graphics in VB (the class has gotten better since I took it, they actually teach bubblesort now). Well, I made a mastermind clone, complete with a winning screen that showed a picture of a pie from "Joe Mama's Pie Shop." Well, I had developed it on my laptop which was running at 1024x768. Being a freshman at the time, it didn't even occur to me that the game would be undisplayable at lower resolutions, and I didn't include scroll bars because I didn't think of it. Well, at first when I got it back I got a 20/100 on it because the TA couldn't figure anything out because he was running at 800x600 and the bottom half of the game which contained the action buttons was cut off.

After my reply to him telling him to change his resolution, he emailed me back, basically ignoring what I had told him, and decided to give me a full 100/100 based solely on the quantity of code I wrote. Granted, it was probably several hundred lines, but most were copy and paste that dealt with checking and changing colors in the mastermind game. I finally resized the game to run at 800x600 and emailed it back to him, after which he wrote and said the full grade was justified. It was silly of me not to include scroll bars, but seriously, who works at 800x600 anyway?

Let me guess.. You're a freshman.
:p

Heh, oddly enough, the physics lab I'm in right now is actually like that. It's the only lab I've ever had like that though. All my other physics, chem, and EE labs required work outside of lab. They got a new professor to head the physics labs this year though, and he decided that he would make labs longer, but not require any outside work. So he eliminated all prelabs and post-lab reports, but the average lab is twice as long as it was last year. It definitely is less stressful that way, with no lab report to procrastinate till the night before to do though. Luckily it's my last real lab class though, cause I really hate labs.

The kinds of people who beg about extensions in college really annoy the hell out of me though. Almost everything is laid out in syllabi, especially things like paper due dates. I had a fairly easy history class with something like 100 people. 20 or so people in there asked for extensions on the first paper, which was due in like October, and the due date was listed in the syllabus, so it was known from day 1. I really don't get why you think you need an extension on a 6 page minimum research paper that you have 2 months almost to write... These are just people in general though, not freshmen.

I don't get our freshmen either though. They're setting new records for people being sent to the hospital on weekends, heh. They just seem to be able to do a good job at making themselves look bad.

I say calmly correct him or quietly lower his grade. Please don't try to die from heart pressure.

im writing up a lab due in tomorrow as i type this!

18 year old kids living away from parents for the first time is a recipe for immaturity.

At my school, it seems to be more of a "wait, so WHY are we taking a crap in the orchestra pit again? I don't get it" mode. They need to be told why to defecate on school property. Jesus!


Ahh, good times.

Ban me if you must, stupid and rather pointless editing doesn't thrill me much.

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Lighten up Yoshi.