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Friday, October 5, 2012

I Must Laugh, Or I Will Cry

Red Bull + Research Paper Deadline = how many different ways to spell "Peloponnesian" in the same paper?

I'm grading papers, and to quote Kurtz, "The horror, the horror!"  Not all of them--some are pretty good.  But those that aren't...

5 comments:

  1. Pelopo what? Sounds made up to me.

    My phone can even spell that one.

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  2. That makes your phone smarter than most Americans.

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  3. At least it wasn't the Penelopenesian War.

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  4. Been there. Done that. You have my sympathy, sir.

    (Love your comment about the phones being smarter. I had a paper weight that was smarter than some of those submitting papers.)

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  5. It happens in all fields, unfortunately, although it manifests itself a little differently in each.

    I was grading a physics exam once where a student came up with an answer of something like 10**26 Tesla for a magnetic field of a coil. I marked the question wrong, with the comment, "We could do spin-flip measurements on the galaxy with a field this size."

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