Showing posts with label A.E. Housman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A.E. Housman. Show all posts

Saturday, December 18, 2010

My Senior Moments--Best of Fall, 2010

Students taking exams last week rightfully pointed out that, while my list of their questions of the semester was accurate, I had not included my own peccadilloes. Fair enough. I asked for some help on this (scratch that--I received some handwritten submissions), the best of which I have provided below. Enjoy:
Things our teacher says when he thinks a question is stupid but doesn't want to say anything

Takes off glasses, rubs bridge of nose
Sighs audibly
Says a line of A.E. Housman (whoever he is)
Talks about how he used to want to be a cowboy when he was younger

Things our teacher does that annoy the crap out of us

Yells at us for not paying attention to the news
Asks us, "What time is this class over again?"
Forgets to hand back our work, then yells at us for not correcting it
Refuses to define a word we don't know