I am grading papers

[ashling]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I learned some interesting things grading a short answer about the factors that led to the explortions, such as:

King James II, from Portugal, invented the stable governor.

Marco Polo was an italianist

[redqueen]

1. ahahahahahahaha

What grade? Those are hilarious!

[ashling]

4. College Freshmen

that is what makes me want to :cry:

[redqueen]

5. HOLY SHIT

Yeah... definitely :cry:

Wow... I'm stunned... I thought you'd say fourth grade... maybe fifth.

Wow.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. I used to be a grad student at Yale, and you'd be amazed at some of the things

Yalies would write on their world history tests. (One of my roommates was a TA for that course.)

One paper was so funny that we got together and illustrated it.

For example, in talking about the medieval "surphs," this student said, "The surphs didn't get any money for their work. Their sweat went to their lord."

We drew a picture of some medieval serfs standing in line to wring out their shirts over a vat. One of the serfs was saying, "I wonder what he does with it."

[ashling]

10. that is high level writing

:rofl:

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Ever read any books by Richard Lederer?

He compiles funny student writings like that. He is hilarious.

[ashling]

3. not in a while

He's got some good stuff

[Wheezy]

6. These are great.

There's a contest somewhere for these things -- if I can find it, I'll post the link here.

(I'm so sorry for your pain)

[ashling]

7. Thank you

Iam just a graduate assistant, but it hurts when they say some of this stuff.

[madeline_con]

8. I have a kid whose writing always ends with "and stuff."

:eyes:

[ashling]

11. That's funny

and stuff :rofl: