CycloneErik
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yup. I've added the words "no resubmission" to the syllabus the last couple of semesters. Then when people ask, I point to the syllabus and say that's already been answered.
Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire
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yup. I've added the words "no resubmission" to the syllabus the last couple of semesters. Then when people ask, I point to the syllabus and say that's already been answered.
In the continuing saga of the never ending remodel, this morning two large flatbed pickups showed up. One has gravel and the other had a wheelbarrow and assorted shovels and rakes. Also a large box with a KNAACK sticker on it. I looked it up and that is a brand of tool box.
They are wheeling loads of gravel into the back yard now. I'm guessing 3 months and the woman across the street thinks this has been going on for 5-6 months. I have no idea what is being done and can't imagine how much this is costing
Now that the sun is up I can see the massive toolbox is their toolbox and not for her. Not sure why they actually haul around a massive mechanic's tool box in the back of a truck.
They are wheeling loads of gravel into the back yard now. I'm guessing 3 months and the woman across the street thinks this has been going on for 5-6 months. I have no idea what is being done and can't imagine how much this is costing
Now that the sun is up I can see the massive toolbox is their toolbox and not for her. Not sure why they actually haul around a massive mechanic's tool box in the back of a truck.
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I'm sorry but this has been bothering me since you posted it. I am all for catching cheaters and your job is hard enough but the bolded part bothers me.
I was blessed with having 4 older siblings who all taught me early so I was pretty advanced to start school. In school I worked very hard advancing my writing skills and vocabulary. I was a voracious reader who practically wore out dictionaries adding new words I encountered to my vocabulary. I also worked at editing skills (writing is rewriting) to perfect papers I wrote. So I find it short-sighted when cheating is assumed based on work being too good. Not all high schoolers have a high school vocabulary. Not all undergrads write at an undergrad level. Also peer pressure is a very real thing. Very articulate young people often dumb down their speech to fit in but that doesn't mean they can't be very articulate in their work. Maybe you only throw out papers you can prove are plagiarized, but are you careful to not let "I don't think s/he wrote all of this because that language is above their level" influence your grading?
Having an advanced student right there in your own household, you should really think hard about this. You wouldn't want Z's work in the future to be assumed not hers because she is too young to write at that level.
CycloneErik
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It can bother you, but it's 100% true. There's a style of writing that undergrads just don't do.
That's not from a single anecdotal piece of evidence. That's reading thousands of undergrads. It takes 5 seconds to know that it's happened.
This is just as bad as the guy who was on here saying he wouldn't hire anyone who used AI on their resume. That part wasn't as bad as the part where he said he could 100% tell they didn't write their resume when the language on their resume didn't match how they spoke in the interview. Like someone doesn't edit and rewrite a document as important as their resume.
I won't speak on this again. Your response confirms my fears.
CycloneErik
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I can't decide if the prior discussion means my teachers have always thought I was dumb or smart.
CycloneErik
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It's hard to properly sugar-coat a response. Let's just say they found you interesting.
If anyone is going to the game tomorrow and is so inclined, Special Olympics Iowa will be at the gates collecting donations. From the athletics email yesterday:
The Iowa State Athletics Department and Special Olympics Iowa, with the help of some amazing athletes and dozens of volunteers, will be stationed at each entrance to Jack Trice Stadium collecting donations for Special Olympics. The money raised will improve the lives of Iowans with intellectual disabilities. Drop off a donation on your way to cheering the Cyclones to victory or venmo Special Olympics Iowa at @S-O-I-O-W-A-!
The Iowa State Athletics Department and Special Olympics Iowa, with the help of some amazing athletes and dozens of volunteers, will be stationed at each entrance to Jack Trice Stadium collecting donations for Special Olympics. The money raised will improve the lives of Iowans with intellectual disabilities. Drop off a donation on your way to cheering the Cyclones to victory or venmo Special Olympics Iowa at @S-O-I-O-W-A-!
Really don't understand why going out for fish on Fridays is a religion for people. I just want something to eat and I don't want to wait until 8:00pm.
Went there tonight to eat. She said hi to me first. We talked a good amount, wasn't awkward or anything.
The MiG-21's are back. Three of them flying for AJ's Yard Minon's are back and assaulting the leaves across the street. They are being supported by a self-propelled assault vehicle mounting a yuge mobile wind tunnel. The giant vacuum mother ship is on standby.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that we don't rake. 
Lew uses a riding mower attachment to get most of the leaves off of the grass out front, and blows the leaves off the decks, drive and front sidewalk, but what falls in the woods, STAYS in the woods. Lotsa mulch under all them trees.
Lew uses a riding mower attachment to get most of the leaves off of the grass out front, and blows the leaves off the decks, drive and front sidewalk, but what falls in the woods, STAYS in the woods. Lotsa mulch under all them trees.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that we don't rake.
Lew uses a riding mower attachment to get most of the leaves off of the grass out front, and blows the leaves off the decks, drive and front sidewalk, but what falls in the woods, STAYS in the woods. Lotsa mulch under all them trees.
My yard isn't really tenable if you don't do it yourself. I have several hundred hostas that need to be cut/torn off and garden needs to be raked and not blown. If I hired a lawn service they would blow away all of the mulch in the beds and all of the mulch on the paths. When I get too old to do it myself (not that far off) I am pretty much screwed and it will just look like a huge unmaintained mess. Being grounded by a bulged disc since last April gave me a hint how untenable my yard is without me doing it.
Lot's of big shade gardens in my hood. You can always tell when the peeps get too old to maintain it. Things deteriorate for a few years and than the house is sold and than the house is torn down.
That was my garden area this year (right up in front of the house). We were gone, or it was raining, so early season stuff didn't get done..not that I can do it without a lot of pain anyway! So the weeds & tall grass came up with the lilies, then a random deer came through and ate the buds off of all the Asiatic, Oriental, and Tiger lilies (left the short grassy lilies alone). Coneflowers & daisies came up...but then we were gone during a couple of heat waves and they died back early this year.
I'm contemplating just putting out pots on the deck & balcony next spring and calling the front garden "habitat". It's not like anyone but us sees it most of the time!
@BoxsterCy Lorna didn't make it for alumni band this year. They did have one of those picture frames you can autograph out for everyone to sign, and I believe they're placing the pic of this year's alumni band inside.
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