Monday, January 15, 2007

The Dog Ate My Homework

CHECK OUT this article by Don Troop from the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled: "You're Never Going to Believe This One." It offers an inspired sampling of the latest and greatest of student excuses – and there are some doozies including my fave:

"Sorry I missed class, professor, but I had to stay with my girlfriend while she was getting her hair cut."

Most of the excuses are gleaned from the ever peevish RateYourStudents blog.

What? You haven't visited that site? What's wrong with you? Hurry up! Time's a wastin'!

The Chronicle article is good for laughs--and who doesn't need an extra chuckle?--but the RateYour Students blog gives you more than that. Take some time and scroll around. Go ahead. No one's looking. Really.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...