If your professor asked you to

[MissMillie]

send an email with something specific in the subject line and they put that something specific in quotes... wouldn't you think that the stuff in quotes was EXACTLY what you were supposed to put in the subject line?

I am expecting 180 emails between now and midnight tomorrow. I have filters set up to sort them into folders so that I can find them.

Thus far, of the 30 or so emails I have received, only 2 people have used the correct subject line.

Two.

These are graduate students at a very prestigious school.


Be very afraid for the future of the world. The next generation of leaders is completely incapable of following directions.

And yes, this school will graduate them anyway.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. now i dont feel so bad about harvards rejection of me

:0

[Done]

2. I would assume that

the subject line should contain the words "something specific"

[Wapsie B]

3. That's frightening.

Just how low has the bar been lowered this day and age?
And to think if it's a prestigious school these grad students more than likely went through some kind of screening process just to get in.

:wow:

[madinmaryland]

4. Well I would have to make sure I had correct postage and then,

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

:evilgrin:

Oh, you were talking about "E"mail!

[av8rdave]

5. Hey.... * made it into and through Yale....

So this issue has been with us for a while.

[MissMillie]

8. he's also a graduate

of the program at my school

[av8rdave]

14. So sorry to hear....there must still be some cracks in the system

[wildhorses]

6. even at that level

its not what you know
but who ya blow...

or sumpin' like that:P

[Lisa]

7. well, I've just finished grading a 4th-year's term paper ....

It appears that he printed out the pages, numbered them by hand, and put them into a nifty little binder and handed them in ... WITHOUT glancing through to make sure that they were in the correct order.

And he's going to graduate next month. With honors.

What a world, what a world.

[Maddy McCall]

11. I just graded one printed in red ink.

So THERE. :D

(I've also graded one printed in blue ink and one in green ink tonight. *sigh* )

[Lisa]

12. have you had one on bright pink paper yet?

I saved that one for tomorrow, because my eyes are blinded!

Also it's a good time to turn in -- one student's description of "the gentile waves lapping the shore" made me laugh hysterically for 5 minutes. I'm normally not that easily entertained, so I must be pretty tired.

[Maddy McCall]

15. "The prison treat for woman seeking abortions...."

:D

Yes, prison TREAT.

No, no bright pink ones, thank god. I'd have to hand that back without a grade.

[Chan790]

13. I printed my thesis in navy blue ink...

it's supposed to be a little less harsh for the reader. (So is Verdana font) I figured some poor sap who wasn't my thesis advisor was going to have to read all 56 pages for graduate work-study wage....might as well make it less painful for them.

It worked...I got a 4 out of 5 and nobody ever gets a 5. It was bad, as far as capstone thesis papers go. I didn't even prove or disprove my hypothesis.

[ellisonz]

9. Damn we're dumb...and I'm an undergrad.

[Pierre.Suave]

10. Fail the grad students

save the world.

[sir_captain]

16. To be honest

I generally found the grad students at said prestigious institution to be somewhat more lacking in brains than the undergrads they spend so much time teaching.

Then again, I still have trouble correctly tying my shoes.