week from hell part 1 - practical of DOOM
Shitty week, part 1
Electronic devices can sense when you’re trying to do something in the hour before it’s due. And that's when they conspire to thwart you.
I wanted to print out my practical exam for the biology lab in color, since it included images of stained slides. But much to my surprise and frustration, I couldn’t get the printer in my apt to cooperate. So I went to a computer lab on campus to print it thinking it would be no problem.
Hahaha.
I had to dick around for 10 mins while the idiot whose job is to man the computer lab screwed around with opening & closing MS Word and some crazy installer before finally pulling up my practical. Then he had to ask the guy next to him how to print in color. (He gets paid for this?)
And then it was double-sided when I needed single-sided, and we had to do it all over.
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For this biology practical, students rotate through different stations, each with a slide or specimen on which they have to answer questions. So I borrowed scissors from the computer lab to cut the questions apart on my practical so they could be taped to the individual stations.
While I was in the process of cutting questions, a girl came up and declared that she needed to use the scissors. I said that I was still using them.
And then the bitch stole my scissors!
I know this is vaguely kindergartenish, and why can’t we all get along and learn to share and play nice… But goddamn it, I was still using those, and her fucking bitch ass can wait.
I wanted to cut a bitch. But alas, she had my scissors. I wanted to slap a bitch. But she was a Latina. So I was afraid.
………………….
Gave my students the practical and just finished grading it yesterday. And HOMG they suck.
Class average = 72
Range = 104 - 45 Not because of their grades necessarily, but how totally off the wall some of their answers were.
Argh. Almost forgot. This weekend (read: tonight) I have to grade 2 sets of their notebooks.
Electronic devices can sense when you’re trying to do something in the hour before it’s due. And that's when they conspire to thwart you.
I wanted to print out my practical exam for the biology lab in color, since it included images of stained slides. But much to my surprise and frustration, I couldn’t get the printer in my apt to cooperate. So I went to a computer lab on campus to print it thinking it would be no problem.
Hahaha.
I had to dick around for 10 mins while the idiot whose job is to man the computer lab screwed around with opening & closing MS Word and some crazy installer before finally pulling up my practical. Then he had to ask the guy next to him how to print in color. (He gets paid for this?)
And then it was double-sided when I needed single-sided, and we had to do it all over.
………………….
For this biology practical, students rotate through different stations, each with a slide or specimen on which they have to answer questions. So I borrowed scissors from the computer lab to cut the questions apart on my practical so they could be taped to the individual stations.
While I was in the process of cutting questions, a girl came up and declared that she needed to use the scissors. I said that I was still using them.
And then the bitch stole my scissors!
I know this is vaguely kindergartenish, and why can’t we all get along and learn to share and play nice… But goddamn it, I was still using those, and her fucking bitch ass can wait.
I wanted to cut a bitch. But alas, she had my scissors. I wanted to slap a bitch. But she was a Latina. So I was afraid.
………………….
Gave my students the practical and just finished grading it yesterday. And HOMG they suck.
Class average = 72
Range = 104 - 45 Not because of their grades necessarily, but how totally off the wall some of their answers were.
- All of life falls into three domains: Bacteria (which the students saw in Lab 1), Archaea (not seen in our lab at all), and Eukarya (Labs 2-12). Why is it that when I ask the domain of a specimen, the most popular answer is Archaea?
- ”Dinoflagellate” or “prokaryote” is not a domain.
- ”Dog vomit” is not an acceptable answer for type of slime mold, considering that Fuligo septica was not the only plasmodial slime mold specimen displayed
- ”Gametospore” is not an answer that will get you half credit when you’re asked whether the plant you’re currently viewing is the gametophyte generation or the sporophyte
- Legumes (plants, macroscopic) do not live inside Rhizobium species (bacteria, microscopic)
Argh. Almost forgot. This weekend (read: tonight) I have to grade 2 sets of their notebooks.