"Favorite" student sentences

[FishProf]

Some of the negative constipation around the vaccination issue is based on individual liberty and religious freedom.

Uh.....

I am constantly correcting misconceptions about positive and negative reinforcements and punishments.  What is the world is negative constipation?

[apl68]

Some of the negative constipation around the vaccination issue is based on individual liberty and religious freedom.

Uh.....

I am constantly correcting misconceptions about positive and negative reinforcements and punishments.  What is the world is negative constipation?

Dysentery, of course.  Although how getting "the runs" as a side effect of vaccination would be an individual liberty and religious freedom issues remains obscure.

[Blackadder]

Some of the negative constipation around the vaccination issue is based on individual liberty and religious freedom.

Uh.....

I am constantly correcting misconceptions about positive and negative reinforcements and punishments.  What is the world is negative constipation?

Dysentery, of course.  Although how getting "the runs" as a side effect of vaccination would be an individual liberty and religious freedom issues remains obscure.

Forced bathroom confinement curtailing liberty? Still murky on the religious issue though.

[jerseyjay]

In one of my classes, students need to interview and immigrant and then write up his or her story. One of the papers has the following sentence:

"Imagine spending thousands of dollars to get a Ph.D for you to end up being just an unemployed citizen- that's the situation of many in Haiti."

Actually, yes, I can imagine that.

Of course, Haiti is a much, much poorer country than the U.S. I don't doubt an adjunct's life in the U.S. is much better economically than a poor person in Haiti. And I do not know how many unemployed PhDs there are in Haiti. But it struck me that this was a strange way to emphasize the poverty of Haiti (especially since the immigrant the student interviewed does not have a PhD).

[writingprof]

"Since the beginning of time, standardized testing has caused problems in schools."

God, make it stop.

[marshwiggle]

"Since the beginning of time, standardized testing has caused problems in schools."

Well, I can see history tests at the beginning of time being particularly problematic.

[apl68]

"Since the beginning of time, standardized testing has caused problems in schools."

Well, I can see history tests at the beginning of time being particularly problematic.

Well, they should have been easy to pass, anyway.

[Nightshade]

"Furthermore, the way that the peaches present themselves bear heavy resemblance to human butts."

[Thursday's_Child]

"Furthermore, the way that the peaches present themselves bear heavy resemblance to human butts."

How risqué of them - those naughty, naughty peaches!

[traductio]

"Furthermore, the way that the peaches present themselves bear heavy resemblance to human butts."

That's a fantastic sentence! I appreciate the simile. I always appreciate figurative writing.

(About a year ago I supervised a master's student who wrote a fairly remarkable thesis about notions of authenticity in advertising. Her focus was a certain line of lingerie, but she was clearly struggling to maintain a sense of decorum in her writing. She found many creative ways to avoid the word "ass.")

[Nightshade]

"Furthermore, the way that the peaches present themselves bear heavy resemblance to human butts."

That's a fantastic sentence! I appreciate the simile. I always appreciate figurative writing.

(About a year ago I supervised a master's student who wrote a fairly remarkable thesis about notions of authenticity in advertising. Her focus was a certain line of lingerie, but she was clearly struggling to maintain a sense of decorum in her writing. She found many creative ways to avoid the word "ass.")

I laughed until my stomach hurt when I read it, even though the student was quite right in their analysis.  I'm glad to hear others found it as lovely as I did. What an interesting thesis on the part of your student!

[smallcleanrat]

"Furthermore, the way that the peaches present themselves bear heavy resemblance to human butts."

That's a fantastic sentence! I appreciate the simile. I always appreciate figurative writing.

(About a year ago I supervised a master's student who wrote a fairly remarkable thesis about notions of authenticity in advertising. Her focus was a certain line of lingerie, but she was clearly struggling to maintain a sense of decorum in her writing. She found many creative ways to avoid the word "ass.")

I laughed until my stomach hurt when I read it, even though the student was quite right in their analysis.  I'm glad to hear others found it as lovely as I did. What an interesting thesis on the part of your student!

Saying the peaches "present themselves" this way suggests to me that the peaches made a conscious, deliberate act. As in, "Hey, humans! Look at this!"

[mamselle]

Peaches mooning humans...

M.

[traductio]

Peaches mooning humans...

M.

This is clearly the thread I needed to read tonight.

[Hegemony]

"God told Eve to bare children..."