I found the following paper lying in a computer lab and couldn’t tear my eyes away:
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Firstname Surname
UNIV 150
Oct. 15th, 2009
Job Offers Presentation Response
I’m very meticulous about how I plan my life out, what I’m advancing towards in the future and how I’m going to pathway there. So it’s no surprise to me that I’d find this presentation irrelevant, though it was very kind of our instructors to allow us the opportunity to attend this presentation, as circumstances otherwise might have deemed this information necessary to myself, as I’m sure it found its way with other students who may not be as well experienced or educated by this point.
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Remarkable as that second sentence is, the first one’s my favorite. Way to pathway, Mr. Surname!
Arrogance + Ignorance = Arrognornce = English professors must cry themselves to sleep at night
Arrognornce! Love it!
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Wow. This is a very good example of the Arrogant Run-On Paragraph.
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Yeah….so he skipped the 4th grade lecture on proofreading, right?
It’s so much easier to be arrogant if you don’t proofread.
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Love your Facepalm illustration!
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I like how he begins two different clauses with “as.” What, he couldn’t come up with a third? These types of college kids slay me…
NSFW Warning (stop if you offend easily):
My favorite bit of college response feedback occured when I was a graduate student TA. The class I taught spent 1/3 of the time in the big lecture hall and 2/3 of the time in the classroom with me. One time the professor asked for anonymous feedback about the lecture sessions — when asked what SPECIFIC skills they had learned in lecture, one student replied “How not cum so hard.” Which became our catchphrase for the rest of the semester.
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Like drawing. Cannot decipher second sentence.
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I’d pay good money for a Facepalm t-shirt. That’s priceless.
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Thats Impossimpible!
( the place where the impossible and possible meet)
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Dylan – It loves you, too! I asked!
Greg – The dreaded AROP! Imagine how tedious ‘Aropian Nights’ would be.
Leslie – What if he DID proofread this? This could be a HUGE improvement on his first draft.
Glad you like the Facepalm. I spent ten minutes trying to draw a realistic hand, then said ‘TO HELL WITH IT’ and settled for a jagged cartoon.
I’ll leave realism to people with skillz.
Jacob – I bet those clauses made him feel smart. ‘Ha!’ he thought, ‘I feel sorry for people who resort to multiple sentences!’ If it weren’t for that pesky deadline, he could have claused all night.
Glad your professor had a sense of humor about student feedback! I love a good catchphrase.
Andrew – Could it be a secret code? THE SHADOW KNOWS!
Jen – Go for it, I’d be honored. Cafepress.com?
Redd – Impossimpible and bits and bits?
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wow. weird, so badly written my eyes went cross-eyed and I suddenly felt as though I was reading French; I took 4years of french, but it’s been 13 years since I took it, ane while I might know several words, I don’t always remember their exact meanings accurately and therefore can not always piece together a very cognizant paragraph! A little rambly and run-on myself, but my English professor will tell you that that has been my “M.O” for a while now!
-I love the Rebekah!
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Rebekah Reply:
November 15th, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Rebekah loves the Winter!
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Hahaha. I enjoy when people create new verbs. Fun stuff. Way to pathway, indeed. ;-P
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Rebekah Reply:
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:00 AM
It’s not a bad verb, really.
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