Classes have been in session for a few weeks now, and I’m still missing one of my grades. This is not a surprise, though, as this particular professor is notorious for taking forever. It’s interesting, really. Like most professors, this one doesn’t really accept late work. He doesn’t accept much in the way of excuses for missing too many classes. On more than a few occasions, he has attributed that to “professionalism”. Professors, when they say such things, often make allusions to practice — “If a motion is due by a certain day, it’s due. It’s your job to get it done.”
Why is it, then, that year in and year out, this professor takes weeks longer than any of the other professors?
Granted, the class is very large (~150 people), but the final is also fairly long (an 8 hour take home). If this professor can’t handle grading the exams in a timely manner, maybe he should limit enrollment in the class, or shorten the final.
It appears that this is really just a priority issue, though, as he continues to update his blog when he should be grading finals.
January 21st, 2008 at 9:51 am
Yeah, I’m missing one of my grades too, also from a professor who does not accept ANY late work AT ALL. And it’s a small class, we didn’t have a final and 3/4 of our grade was complete by the time we turned in our final paper a week before exams.
But in this case I imagine it’s because he’s out somewhere chasing boys rather than blog updating…