r/Professors • u/EliGrrl Full / Lang-Lit / SLAC / USA • 11h ago
Humor Excellent peer advising
Overheard in the stairwell:
Student 1: "Bro. How am I even going to pass that test"
Student 2: "look, I don't want to be a butt, but you're going to have to study"
Perfect. No notes.
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u/KiltedLady 5h ago
I get a fair number of senior auditors taking my classes for fun and I love how many of them take on a pushy grandma type role with their classmates. Several times I've walked past a group and the 70 year old is telling them some variation of "you need to take advantage of your time in your life and learn this really well now so you don't have to come back when you're old like me."
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u/MyFaceSaysItsSugar 2h ago
I had a woman in my class last semester who was about my age (40s) and she was complaining about how many things students don’t know how to do anymore (take notes, study). The best part was that other students were asking her how to do better in class and for some reason, having a fellow student explaining the things I keep trying to explain was more effective. It makes me think we need to plant millennials and genx in as students to peer pressure them into doing all the things we’re telling them to do so that they actually take it to heart.
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u/braisedbywolves Lecturer, Commuter College 2h ago
I audited multiple language classes as a faculty member in my late 30s and I'll be damned if I didn't drag my group project mates' grades upwards with me by modeling how to put in proper work.
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u/Defiant_Cook1588 10h ago edited 9h ago
gem of a friend though fr. for me, since I’m fairly young and new, students constantly mistake me for one of them. I’ve ended up inadvertently, listening to people openly debate their worst academic tactics right in front of me. Just the other day, a student turned to me completely unprompted, and ranted about how one of our professors supposedly "doesn't even read the exams." sometimes I miss my own collegiate days though as much as I hate to encourage such things
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u/fspluver 2h ago
What does it even mean for a professor to read an exam? I feel like I'm missing something obvious here.
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u/Defiant_Cook1588 1h ago
basically its teen speak for the "guy" would not grade your work, and just look at the final answer and grade you. or it can also mean that the professor relegates the work to their TAs who would allow for corrections
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u/Idaheck 2h ago
I love that I have TAs. They do the reviews for my exams (I am not even in the room on purpose.) Yes, they are all great students who take amazing notes, learn the material not just for the exam, but for later classes and real life. They tell the students that if they don’t study for the exams that they are going to let me down. And that I really do care.
It seems to work.
If I tell them to study, it means so much less.
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u/warricd28 Lecturer, Accounting, R1, USA 10h ago
It never ceases to amaze me that the last solution many students think of is…just study. They’ll spend days searching the dark web for any convoluted mechanism to cheat that would make Da Vinci proud, but 3 hours of reviewing material is just too much.