He’s so high he doesn’t realize that the bug blocking his door is the professor
It’s Professor Hanks
https://sib.illinois.edu/departments/entomology/directory/faculty
Fun fact: he’s in fact Tom Hanks’ brother
I thought you were joking
Why does she have wings!?
Redbull
makes awful whirring noise
That would be because of the caffeine
This may have worked. I once excused a student for being late because the geese were being aggressive.
i’m not a teacher, but if i was i’d excuse it just because they took the effort to compose such a crazy story. probably learned more than i’d have taught them that day a anyway
If the class was on Kafka I’d give them top marks
as an etymologyst, it really bugs me when i get n to my work
I’m newly a teacher (of adults), and I accept literally any excuse anyone gives me. I suspect that I’ll change that as time goes on, but I don’t even really get excuses.
I’ll generally accept it if you send any excuse prior to the lecture unless it’s becoming a habit - in those rare cases I’ll happily work with them to try and figure out a solution. 80% of the time it’s family medical appointments or childcare scheduling issues (and my gosh I am so happy to accommodate people dealing with that) and the rare cases it’s not we can usually find a way to make up for what they’ve missed. I’ve got a couple colleagues that only accept excuses with a doctor’s note, and the best thing I can say about them is that they’re
retiring soonincredibly passionate about teaching.(none of this applies to freshman courses, though. We’ve learned that being really strict about attendance for freshman year boosts passing rates by like 30%, it’s just crazy.)
Oh, the funniest part of this to me was how certain I was it was true. I used to have to find alternate routes into the building all the time because of the geese. I think they nested in the bushes near all the doors. If it wasn’t, it was a very good lie and I appreciated the effort anyway.
yeah, as a canadian i feel like i criminally neglected that part of your comment
who cares about collage attendance?
in my uni no one cared, of you’re late, it’s just a bit rude, of you don’t show up, no one cares.
what matters are the graded assignments and exams. if a student aces those but never stepped in a lecture hall, does that matter?
This was for a lab I was teaching, so they had to be there in person. It was a 3 hour block, so I wouldn’t have even asked why they were late. I only even remember 5+ years later because they came rushing in with an explanation and I thought it was hilarious.
If you can pass my class without attending lecture, why wouldn’t you just ask to test out of the class???
I scream, into the uncaring void.Because following at home and teaching yourself the material throughout the semester is different from knowing it all already.
Okay setting aside that I’ve never ever seen someone try that and actually succeed, why would someone shell out for a college lecture if they’re going to do that anyways? My syllabus is good, but it’s not all that useful for independent study time. (You also can’t replicate lab or seminar time on your own, so I’m just not sure what you’re basing this on.)
Some classes don’t require labs. A handful of people that I’ve seen will only show up for quizzes and exams and still pass the class. Why they do it? No clue.
In particular, the classes I’ve seen this happen usually provide a semester-long list of what textbook chapters will be covered in which weeks. If the textbook is thorough enough and the course adheres to the text, it’s doable.
You know, I’ve had students attempt this every quarter and I’ve still never seen it actually work. It might be a reflection of how teaching has had to shift as a result of the changes brought on by AI + the pandemic, though. I started professing only a little bit before then, so I never really saw the era where you could get away with such strict adherence to the textbook.
I accepted “I’m sorry, it was just too nice a day to spend it sitting in a basement with no windows” once because man, they had a point.
Immediate failure for not being academia levels of brain-broken. You’ll sit in your cube and like it!
Damn cobra chickens getting all hissy and angry just because I don’t have bread for them. Entitled bastards.
Respectfully, I am in tears,
My brain at random
Might make this my work signature tbh
There’s no bug. But there’s a mirror and that student has turned into a bug.
Totally Kafkaesque.
Kafkaesque as shit
Hey, the were honest. I’d let it fly
And scare the poor student even more???
When I move
You move
just like that
Hell yeah hey dj bring that back
I expect more from you, Spruce.
I’ll see you after class ;)
Last time i’ve read this it hadn’t had that huge white spacing.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
ma’am, this is the last time i’m gonna tell you to stop that before i call Costco security.
If one more motherfucker walks in and says this shit in target I’m gonna lose it
Sir this is not a bug, it’s a hot dog
I’ll allow it
Did nobody get the reference or is everybody in on the joke?
You have some bug jousting reference you wanna let the class in on?
I’d like to think they are Gregor Samsa in denial and about to come to the conclusion that they are the bug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
