Coming To Terms

I don’t give tests to my classes. So when mid-semester hits, students get all confused. They ask, “So we’re not having a midterm?”

I say, “No.”

They say, “So we don’t have a test in here.”

I say, “No.”

They ask, “So when we have tests in other classes, we don’t have one in this class?”

I say, “No.”

They ask, “So what are we going to do then?”

I say, “Have a class.”

They ask, “Not a test?”

I ask, “Do you want me to give you a test?”

Then they go into an uproar and holler about how they can’t have another test and they have too many other ones to study for. So I say, “Then stop asking me about tests. You’re putting ideas into my head.”

They settle down. I teach. They learn. Hopefully.

~Academic Interlude~
Mid-Semester Student Evaluations for Professor Roma

1. This course should not be mandatory. When will I EVER need to know how to write?
2. The book is idiotic but the porfesor is cool.
3. Pro. Roma is the best!!!
4. I hate this class. I hate this teacher. She trats us like we don’t got nothing better to do than to do work for her class. I can all ready write good.
5. Challenging but good.
6. Too hard. Too much work. Why should we write so many essays?
7. The school needs to have more flowers and bushes outside to make it pretty.
8. Miss Roma is a tough teacher. But she nice to.
9. Cafateria food is way too much money.
10. The course helps me to learn writting in a expository form. Only problem was too many essays. Maybe 4 would do.
11. My only course that was actually like college. Challenging. I really had to use my mental capacity to its fullest.
12. She is well educated.
13. I like cheese.
14. A pleasure to be with.
15. At first I didn’t like this class but it’s okay.