One of my students didn't turn in any assignments last week. I was pretty sure without checking my attendance records that he was not in class last week but I asked, just to be sure. The conversation ran like this:
professor trek: "Student For Whom I Have No Papers, weren't you absent last week?"
Student For Whom I Had No Papers (looking up and cheerfully chirping): "Yup! I was too hungover to come to class."
prof trek: (nodding) "Okay, then."
SFWIHNP: "Well, yeah, and I'm not going to lie to you or anything. See, my buddy turned twenty-one and I thought I'd just go out for a drink with him, you know, to celebrate. I really thought I'd just have one drink."
prof trek: "Seriously? A twenty-first birthday celebration and you seriously thought that you were going to have one, single, solitary drink and then go home?" I might have sounded a wee bit disbelieving.
SFWIHNP: "Well, yeah. But it didn't quite work out that way. And that's why I didn't come to class because I was really hungover."
Dude...tee-em-eye.
Seriously.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
A first...make that a twenty-first
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None of my students have offered that excuse. However, I have a couple who are so dedicated that they show up before the hangover part and after the sober part. That is a fun time for everyone...
I don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing that your student was so honest with you. Sometimes I think I prefer a good lie!
TMI indeed.
Honesty can be a good thing but surely he could have come up with a good lie just this one time. ;)
Yeah, something a little less, well, you know, personal.
Like maybe jury duty or an outbreak of herpes.
Something like that.
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