"Favorite" student sentences

[sinenomine]

Or a student who never went to class, so they were easily confused?

Years ago I had a student who had never attended class or done any of the assignments show up to the final exam. She wrote her name, answered the first question (correctly), and got up and left. So she wound up with a final course grade of about 1%.

[Liquidambar]

Years ago I had a student who had never attended class or done any of the assignments show up to the final exam. She wrote her name, answered the first question (correctly), and got up and left. So she wound up with a final course grade of about 1%.

Did she have friends in the class?  When I was in college, classmates encouraged a failing friend to "take one for the team" by doing the exam anyway so the average would be lower.  This was with a professor who would scale everyone's score if the average was too low, so the students were acting rationally.

(That professor was later moved to a different, non-gatekeeping course.  He was replaced by someone who knew how to write a more reasonable exam.)

[fosca]

That, or since her last day of attendance was finals week, she could keep all of her financial aid. I have students seem to pull that all the time.

[AmLitHist]

Art, much like other facets in life, is heavily influenced by the prevailing power structures set in place. Similarly, its perception is wildly diverse and classified or influenced by those in or opposed to its favor.

Pass the French dressing for this word salad, please.

[Stockmann]

During a lab rotation, as I was giving them a tour of the lab, someone asked me about some numbered plastic disks on the wall of a workshop-like part of the lab. I told them the truth, that they've been here since before I worked in this joint. I don't recall the exact sentence, but one of my students chimed in that it's how they keep track in prison of who has which tool, that the numbers correspond to an inmate, and the hook to a tool. Nobody asked her anything further about it.

[apl68]

Art, much like other facets in life, is heavily influenced by the prevailing power structures set in place. Similarly, its perception is wildly diverse and classified or influenced by those in or opposed to its favor.

Pass the French dressing for this word salad, please.

What's sad is that it's very little more of a word salad than any amount of actual academic writing I've seen.  The student may have done enough actual reading in the field to come by it honestly.

[AmLitHist]

Art, much like other facets in life, is heavily influenced by the prevailing power structures set in place. Similarly, its perception is wildly diverse and classified or influenced by those in or opposed to its favor.

Pass the French dressing for this word salad, please.

What's sad is that it's very little more of a word salad than any amount of actual academic writing I've seen.  The student may have done enough actual reading in the field to come by it honestly.

Haha! That had actually occurred to me, as well, APL!