1. Students ask me to come in on Saturday or Sunday to go over their papers (which I've already read and commented on, and I didn't skimp on the comments). In addition, we're peer reviewing ALL next week. I met with them today anyway, since I was on campus proctoring the LSAT... but come on. I would NEVER ask one of my professors to come in on the weekend.
2. Former student at the LSAT today who wanted to "go ahead" in front of other people in line during check-in because she had already signed her admission ticket. You've got to be kidding me. I told her, "just wait." These other people had been there before her, but she thought she was special.
3. Visiting writer, the kook who burst into my class 2 weeks ago, who sent me an e-mail today protesting what I wrote in my feedback for the class visit. (We are required to give feedback). I didn't write that she was rude, late to class each time, or disorganized. I wrote that I would prefer students had more time to discuss (essentially she cut them off every other word to give her opinion). I think that was a pretty fair statement, not made in any offensive way. So she emails me to argue with my very slight criticism. Her reason was "teachers often complain we don't give students enough time to write, so that's why I cut them off."
Oh, ok -- so arriving to class 15 minutes late isn't a factor in the timing issue?
Seriously.
Seriously.
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