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[ SECRET POST #3736 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3736 ⌋

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[Star Trek: AOS (Reboot)]

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[Jake Lloyd, Star Wars]

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(A Little Princess, the 1995 Alfonso Cuarón version)

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[Detective Constable Katie Harford (played by Georgina Campbell) on Broadchurch (season 3)]

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[Naruto, KakaSasu]

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[The Nosleep Podcast]

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ughhhhhhh I'm grading student essays and so many of them don't know how to write for shit (or listen to the goddamn instructions!)

What are you frustrated about F!S?

It amazes me what kids don't seem to have learned in high school. Was it not taught, or did they just not "get" it?

From my experience, it's a combination.

I have no idea. I really don't.
The thing is, I'm not even talking about *bad writing*, which is rampant of course, but the number of students doing things that I SPECIFICALLY said not to do.

"Don't start with an overly-generalizing unsupportable statement or statement of the obvious" I said.

"Honor has always been the most important virtue in Japanese society" they write.
GODDDAMMIT.

Ha ha ha look at the teacher complaining about the shitty work that innocent kids are forced to do for zero pay. Give them a reason to care about your dumbfuck rules, maybe, besides an unfulfillable promise that they'll get a Good Job Someday, For Reals?

What is this crazy person rambling?

Haha look at the asshole shitting on the underpaid TA who explained very clearly why she made the requests she made and what the students should learn from it

go fuck yourself, I guess you're bitter that you never got a job

...well, that escalated quickly.

The world- and many of the jobs in it - are ful of "dumbfuck rules" people have to follow and the people who make and enforce them don't give a fuck if your precious little heart "cares about them."

'elp, 'elp, I'm bein' oppressed! (... by being forced to receive a free education)

Re: frustration

were_lemur - 2017-03-28 05:20 (UTC) - Expand

Who hurt you?

Re: frustration

(Anonymous) - 2017-03-27 23:21 (UTC) - Expand

who is this strange creature?

(Anonymous) - 2017-03-27 23:57 (UTC) - Expand

Re: frustration

(Anonymous) - 2017-03-28 02:06 (UTC) - Expand

agreeing with the anon above. you need to show examples of good vs bad. just saying "Don't start with an overly-generalizing unsupportable statement or statement of the obvious" makes absolutely 0 sense if you don't give examples.

Re: frustration

ketita - 2017-03-27 23:57 (UTC) - Expand

Re: frustration

(Anonymous) - 2017-03-28 00:13 (UTC) - Expand

I can only speak for myself, but I was never formally taught how to write essays and papers beyond a very basic outline and format. We weren't shown examples of a good essay, either. That would've been a lot more helpful! It wasn't until college that I learned how to write a paper.

I have been searching for a roommate for almost a month. I've gotten at least half a dozen initial responses with almost no actual follow-through. All the affordable studios or one-bedrooms in the area I want are either shitty or not available. I have to move VERY soon, not optional, and I don't want to settle for something less than the basic stuff I want for a commitment of a year or more, especially because I technically can afford to live downtown (just not by myself in most places) and I've wanted to for years.

I wish my roommates had been more upfront with me about our current situation. I was initially going to stay til summer, and a lot of places become available then, or people become available to be roommates because they get out of school. This right now is not a great time to be moving :/

That sucks :X Roommate/moving stress is the worst kind of stress. I'm looking for a roommate for next year myself, and terrified the complex is going to saddle me with some crazy undergrad who will make noise and ruin my sofas and eat my food or something.

I hope things work out for you soon :(

:( I'm sorry. Sending good housing vibes your way!!!

I think writing is a skill that many kids get through high school without ever needing to develop. I always felt lucky that I took all the AP classes, because we really had essays hammered into us and that really did make me feel prepared for college. But I don't think my classmates who didn't take those courses ever really had to write an essay with a thesis and supporting evidence.

My liberal arts college required all freshmen to take one writing class and one oral communication (speech) class, which honestly I think is a good thing. It really emphasized how to construct an argument and cite your sources, which is the most basic of the basic but still a really important lesson.

I agree with you 100%, and I am boggled that they don't do this. When I started uni I had to take a class like that too. Skillful writing will only come with a lot of hard work, obviously, but they should be able to avoid some of the basic issues!
So many of them really don't know how to structure an argument. I tried to help them, I did :( I even workshopped their ideas in class and tried to help them figure out how to phrase them as good arguments!

But this was not a writing course...

Problem to is that I had to take two English classes in college. They were both incredibly useless. English 101 was supposed to focus on arguments, but as someone who was incredibly liberal going to school in a conservative community (but it was a state school, so pretty diverse otherwise) I ended up not learning anything and only listening to them spout off about religion and the class ended up frustrating me more than anything else. (What do you mean we are arguing about evolution? YOU MEAN PEOPLE BELIEVE IN CREATIONISM? WHAT?)

And English 102 was about poetry. I really could have learned how to write a technical brief, not how to analyze a poem.

My sister is grading research paper proposals, and we're raging about them together.

I have a sinus infection. Yay! Or not.

:( that sucks. I hope it heals quickly.

I have to read a mountain of biogeochemistry stuff and I can't concentrate for shit.

In another class, I have to sing and dance at the same time. If I wanted to dance, I would have signed up for the dance troupe.

And my cat wakes me up by jumping on my bed and walking on my face before chewing anything that's on my night table.

I'm one of only two people working my shift that has worked here for more than a month, and if the other person isn't there for whatever reason, I get stuck doing all the work that none of the new people are approved to do, while having to answer most of their questions. Sometimes a supervisor can come off their duties and take care of one or two things, but they're already swamped with work themselves.

MY manager was basically forced into taking a manager position at a different location, leaving us down a manager, but meanwhile she's starting soon enough that the other location won't have to be without one after their previous manager leaves. On top of that we're down one position, another person's planning to give their two weeks notice tomorrow which leaves us with not even enough people to run the place without asking for outside help, and about two months ago our location underwent a big change in how we do things. Basically this is the worst time for us to be without a manager and it kinda pisses me off that the regional management apparently doesn't care about the spot my location is being left in and who knows how long we'll have to wait for for them to fill our empty manager position.

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