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Dean_the_Young

What class was it? Are history students as snarky and pretentious with their papers as they were with engineering students? (Or, as the old joke went- an Engineer tells the history student their degree will get them a job at Starbucks, and the historian just plays a clip of the Tacoma Narrows bridge.)
mai 13 2014 03:39

Aimi

Emergency fill-in for an upper-division undergrad course on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. So I didn't come up with course policy or tests or anything myself; the actual professor had everything all ready to go before he got injured in the last month of the semester.

Some of the papers were...kinda bad. One of my pet peeves is 'people who don't really know what they're talking about but act like they do', so seeing somebody blather on for several pag...
mai 13 2014 04:21

Aimi

...several pages on a bad thesis without recent historiography was a little obnoxious. On the other hand, there were three papers that I thought were really, really good, though, and most papers were at least competent.

The real problem was grading the exams, because university policy requires final grades to be in within three days of the testing time. That was fun.
mai 13 2014 04:24