"Favorite" student sentences

[marshwiggle]

Here's another one:

"The terrain of Venus is relatively smooth with two continent like fetuses named Ishtar and Aphrodite."

This is superb! You made my day.

Sounds like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

[onehappyunicorn]

I usually teach studio art classes but we needed someone to teach an art appreciation class last minute this semester and I got volunteered. It's been a while since I've had to grade student papers and while I'm ready to start drinking I have a few gems.

From two separate papers about The Persistence of Memory:

"Dali often used ants in his paintings to represent death and decay that he, himself symbolizes."

"This painting was not up for commission, which hints that Dalí was a surrealist."

I liked this one about another artist:
"The intense intensity radiating from the artwork established a profound and automatic connection..."
I would be disappointed to have apathetic intensity radiating for sure...

[apl68]

I usually teach studio art classes but we needed someone to teach an art appreciation class last minute this semester and I got volunteered. It's been a while since I've had to grade student papers and while I'm ready to start drinking I have a few gems.

From two separate papers about The Persistence of Memory:

"Dali often used ants in his paintings to represent death and decay that he, himself symbolizes."

"This painting was not up for commission, which hints that Dalí was a surrealist."

I liked this one about another artist:
"The intense intensity radiating from the artwork established a profound and automatic connection..."
I would be disappointed to have apathetic intensity radiating for sure...

I can remember sentences like these from my TA days.  And in those days students didn't need online bots to generate writing like that for them!

"Intense intensity radiating" was indeed repetitious and redundant.  If the intensity is "radiating" then it's obviously intense, since apathetic intensity almost never has what it takes to radiate.

[Liquidambar]

Stu was explaining the reason why a fairly esoteric mathematical statement couldn't be true.  (Actually it was true, but that's beside the point.)

"This world wouldn't exist, humans wouldn't exist, and food wouldn't exist for that matter."

[apl68]

Stu was explaining the reason why a fairly esoteric mathematical statement couldn't be true.  (Actually it was true, but that's beside the point.)

"This world wouldn't exist, humans wouldn't exist, and food wouldn't exist for that matter."

In that case, I'm glad that the student was mistaken.  I'd hate it if food didn't exist, especially if I wasn't there to eat it.

[MarathonRunner]

This is giving me strong AI vibes, but the student could just be very verbose and overuse what they perceive to be "fancy" language:

Registering in "Baskets and the human body" was motivated by various ideas and curiosities surrounding the human body as a system. I hope to accumulate such knowledge. I believe that by accumulating this knowledge through course concepts, group work, and assignments, I will be able to better resonate with clients who use baskets in my future workplace dynamic.

At least they are now on my radar to carefully check future assignments.

[marshwiggle]

This is giving me strong AI vibes, but the student could just be very verbose and overuse what they perceive to be "fancy" language:

Registering in "Baskets and the human body" was motivated by various ideas and curiosities surrounding the human body as a system. I hope to accumulate such knowledge. I believe that by accumulating this knowledge through course concepts, group work, and assignments, I will be able to better resonate with clients who use baskets in my future workplace dynamic.

At least they are now on my radar to carefully check future assignments.

If that's AI, it's a very poor AI, spouting "biz-speak" rather than actual meaningful statements.

[the_geneticist]

This is giving me strong AI vibes, but the student could just be very verbose and overuse what they perceive to be "fancy" language:

Registering in "Baskets and the human body" was motivated by various ideas and curiosities surrounding the human body as a system. I hope to accumulate such knowledge. I believe that by accumulating this knowledge through course concepts, group work, and assignments, I will be able to better resonate with clients who use baskets in my future workplace dynamic.

At least they are now on my radar to carefully check future assignments.

Smells like AI to me with a generous dash of business school.

[RatGuy]

This is giving me strong AI vibes, but the student could just be very verbose and overuse what they perceive to be "fancy" language:

Registering in "Baskets and the human body" was motivated by various ideas and curiosities surrounding the human body as a system. I hope to accumulate such knowledge. I believe that by accumulating this knowledge through course concepts, group work, and assignments, I will be able to better resonate with clients who use baskets in my future workplace dynamic.

At least they are now on my radar to carefully check future assignments.

Smells like AI to me with a generous dash of business school.

This doesn't set off my AI-dar. Instead, I'd assume, if anything, the student either used the thesaurus function or used one of those online paraphrasers. I guess the latter is a type of AI but the quotes passage doesn't feel much like ChatGPT to me

[Myword]

I usually teach studio art classes but we needed someone to teach an art appreciation class last minute this semester and I got volunteered. It's been a while since I've had to grade student papers and while I'm ready to start drinking I have a few gems.

From two separate papers about The Persistence of Memory:

"Dali often used ants in his paintings to represent death and decay that he, himself symbolizes."

"This painting was not up for commission, which hints that Dalí was a surrealist."

I liked this one about another artist:
"The intense intensity radiating from the artwork established a profound and automatic connection..."
I would be disappointed to have apathetic intensity radiating for sure...

I can remember sentences like these from my TA days.  And in those days students didn't need online bots to generate writing like that for them!

"Intense intensity radiating" was indeed repetitious and redundant.  If the intensity is "radiating" then it's obviously intense, since apathetic intensity almost never has what it takes to radiate.

I usually teach studio art classes but we needed someone to teach an art appreciation class last minute this semester and I got volunteered. It's been a while since I've had to grade student papers and while I'm ready to start drinking I have a few gems.

From two separate papers about The Persistence of Memory:

"Dali often used ants in his paintings to represent death and decay that he, himself symbolizes."

"This painting was not up for commission, which hints that Dalí was a surrealist."

I liked this one about another artist:
"The intense intensity radiating from the artwork established a profound and automatic connection..."
I would be disappointed to have apathetic intensity radiating for sure...

Dali said in interview on Dick Cavett show not to look for meanings in his work because there are none. He was clear not joking

[Liquidambar]

Students were supposed to interpret a calculation and observe that negative population wasn't physically relevant.

Student:  "You can't have negative crabs (unfortunately)."

I'm very curious why he considers this unfortunate.

[apl68]

Hopefully not due to personal experience....

[the_geneticist]

Written in a quiz "I am not in this class"

Ok?

Looked up Stu and they indeed are not in this class.  Why did they take the quiz?!

[Puget]

Written in a quiz "I am not in this class"

Ok?

Looked up Stu and they indeed are not in this class.  Why did they take the quiz?!

I had a student last week sit down in the class, accept the exam as it was handed out, write their name on the exam, and only then apparently realize they were not in the right classroom at the right time. I'm still puzzling over that one -- like, I can kind of understand getting mixed up about the day or time, but weren't they surprised/shocked there was an exam? (unless there happened to be one in their actual class too?) Didn't it occur to them that they didn't know any of the students around them or the TAs handing out the exam, or the instructor at the front of the room? That seems like a particularly high level of obliviousness. But I guess at least unlike your non-student they didn't actually attempt to take the exam!

[the_geneticist]

Ha!
I had a student missing from [baskets 102] labs the first week.  Absent = we drop you unless you had an emergency since the class always has a waitlist.
I emailed to ask why they weren't in class.
Stu said "I was there!  I turned in everything! The TA can tell you!"
OK, there are 2 rooms, they must have gone to the other room.  I checked & neither TA had an assignment from Stu.

Turns out, Stu went to an entirely different class.  That's right, they just followed a bunch of other students into a [baskets 101] lab.  Somehow that TA didn't notice they had an extra student & must not have taken attendance either. 

When we got this sorted out I asked Stu how they didn't notice this was a class they had *already taken*.  They said they figured maybe the first day was always the same for all [baskets] labs.