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Shit My Students Write
Excerpts from students' essays that will give you a whole new perspective on life, literature, history, and all that shit. (I paraphrase.) Some of my favorites:
Mugging angst
At some point in a person’s life, they are a teenager, and every teenager is sure to hold a mug of angst close at hand.
Took the words right out of that book.
Its not really plagiarism as it was exactly what I was going to write anyway.
Sodom did a lot for sex.
Sodom and Gomorrah really blew the lid off the sexual revolution for people to be more experimental with sex, and the gays getting to have some. But Jesus put a stop to that!
Who says criticism is dead?
Waiting for Godot is like two naked guys sitting in the air.
Do the right thing.
My moral code is what I think everyone should go by because I don’t feel that I have done anything wrong.
If these stones could walk…
It was the geography of the Mesopotamian region that first attracted nomadic paleoliths to the area.
In ancient times, no one knew how to lead an army through miles of whipped cream.
Ancient Egypt was protected from foreign enemies because it was surrounded on all sides by dessert.
Damn You, Autocorrect!
Which has taught me that no matter what, you should never ever text any older relatives or business acquaintances on an iPhone. OTOH, frat buddies and other parties who accept "syphilis!" as a cheery all-purpose greeting are probably okay.
This one isn't one of the really funny ones, but it reminds me of some sparkly dancing boys, so...
Excerpts from students' essays that will give you a whole new perspective on life, literature, history, and all that shit. (I paraphrase.) Some of my favorites:
Mugging angst
At some point in a person’s life, they are a teenager, and every teenager is sure to hold a mug of angst close at hand.
Took the words right out of that book.
Its not really plagiarism as it was exactly what I was going to write anyway.
Sodom did a lot for sex.
Sodom and Gomorrah really blew the lid off the sexual revolution for people to be more experimental with sex, and the gays getting to have some. But Jesus put a stop to that!
Who says criticism is dead?
Waiting for Godot is like two naked guys sitting in the air.
Do the right thing.
My moral code is what I think everyone should go by because I don’t feel that I have done anything wrong.
If these stones could walk…
It was the geography of the Mesopotamian region that first attracted nomadic paleoliths to the area.
In ancient times, no one knew how to lead an army through miles of whipped cream.
Ancient Egypt was protected from foreign enemies because it was surrounded on all sides by dessert.
Damn You, Autocorrect!
Which has taught me that no matter what, you should never ever text any older relatives or business acquaintances on an iPhone. OTOH, frat buddies and other parties who accept "syphilis!" as a cheery all-purpose greeting are probably okay.
This one isn't one of the really funny ones, but it reminds me of some sparkly dancing boys, so...