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Post by billisonboard on Dec 18, 2021 9:56:40 GMT -5
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Post by Tiny on Dec 18, 2021 10:38:41 GMT -5
LOL! I read the "silly" bus for all of my classes - at the Jr. College and when I started night school at a University more than a decade later. I probably wouldn't have gone to see if there really was a locker with money in it... as I would assume I would be too late. (I don't ever win prizes or games or anything else.) The reason I read the syllabus? I was juggling work and school and a social life (even in Jr. College) and in order to do that I found that the "road map" and expectations for grade levels outlined in the syllabus to be rather helpful. It was usually the only clue to what I would be expected to do for the class, homework load, and how I would be graded. When I was in night school - I took a class that had a brutal level of homework (reading Shakespeare plays and up to 3 pages worth of written answers) every week along with a short paper due at mid term and a long paper due at the end of the course. It was a 9 week semester. We were expected to have read a play for the first night's class. The syllabus indicated that in order to get an A the two papers had to be produced. If you aced all the homework but didn't do the papers the best you could get was a B. I literally did not have the time to produce the long paper (I was working full time. It was the fall semester - which meant year end at work (accounting's most intense time). I opted for a B. I did ace all the homework assignments and I did produce a short paper for midterm (not my best work) but it did get me the B for the class. I did discuss my "time crunch" issue with the instructor not that they would budge on the rules - but that they shouldn't expect a long paper from me and that I would willing take whatever grade I got (if I didn't do well on the weekly homework/midterm.) That alliedvated alot of stress. I got the highest B grade I could get. I totally enjoyed that class - it was a lot of work but it was fun.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Dec 18, 2021 10:43:25 GMT -5
Of course I would. That was the purpose of putting the "test" in the syllabuses. Besides that $50 to a starving college student is a lot of money. And I would have written my name in big ass capital letters too!!
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Post by busymom on Dec 18, 2021 10:51:57 GMT -5
Absolutely! When I was in college, the minimum wage was between $3 & $4 an hour. $50 would've lasted this girl a long time. Even if I bought a pizza every weekend.
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Post by billisonboard on Dec 18, 2021 11:02:53 GMT -5
The hint read: "Thus (free to the first who claims; locker one hundred forty-seven; combination fifteen, twenty-five, thirty-five), students may be ineligible to make up classes and ..." I likely would have missed it the way it was written. "(... locker 147: combination 15, 25,35) is easier to see. Smart professor.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Dec 18, 2021 12:25:42 GMT -5
I'd go for it.
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