LOL did the TA think you were going to just accept an F or that you didn't have any of your papers left? That's hilarious.
I'm not installing Acrobat reader for some guy's stupid grades!!! You deserve an F for not using jpgs.
Edit: Doh! I have foxitreader anyway. I don't understand why you converted from png to PDF and not to jpg or gif though...
You pwned that TA. I was just thinking that some ATOTers would post that you shouldn't have pissed off the TA and should settle for your F... And sure enough someone did!
Edit: Doh! I have foxitreader anyway. I don't understand why you converted from png to PDF and not to jpg or gif though...
You pwned that TA. I was just thinking that some ATOTers would post that you shouldn't have pissed off the TA and should settle for your F... And sure enough someone did!
Those Cliff's sucked, you still linked to the PDF and made us read it.
You get an F for this thread.
You get an F for this thread.
Kanalua
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I'm sure nobody will read this; but I have to add my own douche University Professor story:
Took a Native American Studies class at a very Conservative school. The Professor heavily slanted the class in a liberal bias. Me being an conservative & indigenous citizen of this great Nation often dis-agreed with the perspective and obvious out-right lies that the professor tried to pass as fact in the class (mainly Anti-Regan rants and anti-free markets tirades). Most of the students were white folk, and were very reluctant to speak up (white guilt). So, as an indigenous citizen, no white guilt, I had no problems getting into it with the teacher. THis was a history class, mainly, dabbing in a few current issues, not a policy bashing, revisionist time machine hour that the professor liked to make it.
Anyway, cut to the chase, the final paper in the class was a report about one of Vine Deloria's books (a Native American, though not from the reservation, author/activist). This report would amount to 40% of our grade for the semester.
The book we reviewed was actually very insightful and engaging. I wrote mainly about how much I agreed with Vine Deloria about his issues with Tribal Governments and the power the Native people needed to take back from their own oppressors within (Corruption, Chemical Addictions, etc). My professor returned the paper and it was obvious he had not read the paper at all. He left no marks on the writing, and included a one-page typed "response" to my paper. In his response he assumed arguments that I did not make in my paper (or could be reasonably inferred from) and criticized me for not recognizing the arguments that Deloria was making in his book (which I clearly had). The most infuriating thing was that he ended his "response" with paragraph about having to be able to see things from other peoples perspectives and that I need to look at the Native American issues Deloria writes about from his perspective and not dismiss his perspective because I may disagree with him. It's great point, the only problem is I agreed with the author and my paper accepted and argued in favor of the authors perspective and arguments!
I wrote up a response to his "response" point out all the flaws in the grading and suggesting he read my paper before assigning me a grade. I copied the paper, response and my re-tort, and gave him a copy (left in his box outside his office per his instruction) and then met with him the next day after he had a chance to review my paper. Of course I kept all the originals just in case I had to take this to the Dean of the Department.
His meeting with me avoided all questions and analysis of the paper. I confronted him with the fact that my roommate, a Navajo, wrote a piss poor paper and got a B+ (he never read the book, only wrote about his rage at the white man and the oppression he faced as a half-navajo, half-white student...who looks like every other white kids around). The professor refused to budge claiming he grades all the papers in a sort of bell curve fashion, and that my paper was good, but not as good others (which was not the policy of grading in his syllabus or a policy of the Department). I bit my tongue and left, thinking he would pull the same crap on the final and I would have to make a big stink to the Dean of the History Department.
When the Finals grades were posted and the Semester Grade posted, he gave me A+'s for BOTH! Makes me wonder if he even graded my final, and just gave me an A+ to get me off his back... Only one other person got an A+ in the class, and she was a Navajo girl that a few of us in class think was sleeping with the Professor. The grade I got on the paper made it statistically impossible for me to get an A+ in his class, which I got anyway...
Cliffs:
- Wrote paper for class (40% of grade)
- Prof. gave crappy grade without reading paper.
- Complained to Prof. to no avail, I feared having to appeal to Dean of Dept.
- Give me 1 of only 2 A+'s he gave out that semester.
- Post to ATOT 6 years later about it.
- ?????
- Profit
Took a Native American Studies class at a very Conservative school. The Professor heavily slanted the class in a liberal bias. Me being an conservative & indigenous citizen of this great Nation often dis-agreed with the perspective and obvious out-right lies that the professor tried to pass as fact in the class (mainly Anti-Regan rants and anti-free markets tirades). Most of the students were white folk, and were very reluctant to speak up (white guilt). So, as an indigenous citizen, no white guilt, I had no problems getting into it with the teacher. THis was a history class, mainly, dabbing in a few current issues, not a policy bashing, revisionist time machine hour that the professor liked to make it.
Anyway, cut to the chase, the final paper in the class was a report about one of Vine Deloria's books (a Native American, though not from the reservation, author/activist). This report would amount to 40% of our grade for the semester.
The book we reviewed was actually very insightful and engaging. I wrote mainly about how much I agreed with Vine Deloria about his issues with Tribal Governments and the power the Native people needed to take back from their own oppressors within (Corruption, Chemical Addictions, etc). My professor returned the paper and it was obvious he had not read the paper at all. He left no marks on the writing, and included a one-page typed "response" to my paper. In his response he assumed arguments that I did not make in my paper (or could be reasonably inferred from) and criticized me for not recognizing the arguments that Deloria was making in his book (which I clearly had). The most infuriating thing was that he ended his "response" with paragraph about having to be able to see things from other peoples perspectives and that I need to look at the Native American issues Deloria writes about from his perspective and not dismiss his perspective because I may disagree with him. It's great point, the only problem is I agreed with the author and my paper accepted and argued in favor of the authors perspective and arguments!
I wrote up a response to his "response" point out all the flaws in the grading and suggesting he read my paper before assigning me a grade. I copied the paper, response and my re-tort, and gave him a copy (left in his box outside his office per his instruction) and then met with him the next day after he had a chance to review my paper. Of course I kept all the originals just in case I had to take this to the Dean of the Department.
His meeting with me avoided all questions and analysis of the paper. I confronted him with the fact that my roommate, a Navajo, wrote a piss poor paper and got a B+ (he never read the book, only wrote about his rage at the white man and the oppression he faced as a half-navajo, half-white student...who looks like every other white kids around). The professor refused to budge claiming he grades all the papers in a sort of bell curve fashion, and that my paper was good, but not as good others (which was not the policy of grading in his syllabus or a policy of the Department). I bit my tongue and left, thinking he would pull the same crap on the final and I would have to make a big stink to the Dean of the History Department.
When the Finals grades were posted and the Semester Grade posted, he gave me A+'s for BOTH! Makes me wonder if he even graded my final, and just gave me an A+ to get me off his back... Only one other person got an A+ in the class, and she was a Navajo girl that a few of us in class think was sleeping with the Professor. The grade I got on the paper made it statistically impossible for me to get an A+ in his class, which I got anyway...
Cliffs:
- Wrote paper for class (40% of grade)
- Prof. gave crappy grade without reading paper.
- Complained to Prof. to no avail, I feared having to appeal to Dean of Dept.
- Give me 1 of only 2 A+'s he gave out that semester.
- Post to ATOT 6 years later about it.
- ?????
- Profit
Kanalua
Diamond Member
- Jun 14, 2001
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Whoa? You are justify and condoning a fraud, not to mention academic dishonesty, ethics violations, a breach of professional duty and more?!?! You sympathize with "putting up" with people like the OP through the use of fraud, et. al.?
Seriously....somebody should notify your employer, they're making a huge ($100K, like you said...yeah, I'm sure) mistake! You are a liability! I hope they have some kind of malpractice or other litigation insurance, it looks like your employer is going to need it!
Ph.-rau-D
The chair must've been pretty tired when he wrote the email, because there's a typo in it (sorry had to point it out, because the status of the person who wrote the email).
I'm from the bay area, so I guess you can call me a liberal. But I definitely agree with you, if all your accounts are true, that your TA is stupid and baised. If I was a TA, I would not let personal opinions influence my professional judgements.
--GiLtY
I'm from the bay area, so I guess you can call me a liberal. But I definitely agree with you, if all your accounts are true, that your TA is stupid and baised. If I was a TA, I would not let personal opinions influence my professional judgements.
--GiLtY
Schadenfroh
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MmmSkyscraper
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alkemyst
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The bolded part is funny, I used to stir you up sleeping in class and aceing my tests along with bonus points blowing the curve.
So much you types stopped acknowledging me raising my hand with my head down for the answer.
*ruffle* you silly TA's you *punch*.
DanTMWTMP
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damn, I can't seem to download Ghostscript + GSview from their website anymore ARG. that software was HANDSDOWN the BEST PDF viewing software and pic-to-pdf-to-ps free software there is. it uses soo little resources compared to acrobat hog.
if someone still has Ghostscript+GSview in their HDD's, pm me!!!
if someone still has Ghostscript+GSview in their HDD's, pm me!!!
WhoBeDaPlaya
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Worth $100K+/year in analog/mixed-signal VLSI / RF. Why the heck do you think I'm sticking with it?
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