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Re: Today I'm gonna...
« Reply #1275 on: December 18, 2007, 07:27:45 am »
it is a little of both. Now I figured out that he embedded little notes up through the 7th page. Some are little comments about where I could do to expand...
some are things basically saying I should rewrite it in an entirely new format? i am trying not to freak out right now. I mean... at least he is giving me the chance to change things?
Some of his comments kind of make me want to cry.
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« Reply #1276 on: December 18, 2007, 07:56:21 am »
Yeah I know that feeling, just got to roll with it and shoe-horn in an old fogies tired rhetoric, trying not to let it mar your otherwise insightful and revolutionary thesis.
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« Reply #1277 on: December 18, 2007, 04:51:05 pm »
Ash is right.

Remember - why did you have him read it before it's done if you didn't want feedback? Ah - did you expect the feedback would be "This is terrific! Hand in the finished version exactly like this!" It doesn't work that way, if only because then the prof thinks he is not doing his job. And, in fact, he wouldn't be.
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« Reply #1278 on: December 18, 2007, 05:20:42 pm »
No Womb - Inev handed in a paper he considered finished.  Or are you being sarcastic?

I once met my prof to pick up a paper she was supposed to have graded, and since she was in the middle of grading it when I arrived, she asked me to come with her to the cafeteria, where she would finish marking it and give it to me.  I bought a slice of pizza I didn't really want and sat awkwardly with her while she read my paper and made notes for about 30 minutes.  So odd.  I was a straight A student and she was one of my favorite professors, but it was still weird to sit there and silently wait while she scribbled on my paper.
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« Reply #1279 on: December 18, 2007, 06:10:15 pm »
He handed in a finished paper and the prof gave it back without finishing reading it? With that email? That just seems like such bizarre behavior that I misinterpreted the situation.

Of course, if someone gave me a draft for comments I wouldn't give that back without finishing either. Maybe that's why I'm the one who's out of the business and inev's prof is still in it.
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Re: Today I'm gonna...
« Reply #1280 on: December 18, 2007, 06:13:46 pm »
Today I'm gonna tell as many people as I can to see the movie Juno. So, so good.
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« Reply #1281 on: December 18, 2007, 07:09:35 pm »
yeah. Um. I feel like he is telling me to basically re-write it. But, he also only gave me notes on the first few pages? I am going to email him and see what is up. I should be glad that he is giving me suggestions to fix it instead of just giving me a shitty grade, but... I thought I was done with this thing. I thought it was good.
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« Reply #1282 on: December 18, 2007, 07:22:59 pm »
that is impossible because I am already back in Charlotte. damn.
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« Reply #1283 on: December 18, 2007, 09:31:40 pm »
Damn indeed - if it wasn't close enough to the Xmas travel season to make standby travel iffy, I'd let you use one of my guest passes to get back out there for a day. Telling a prof that you took a day trip back out to get the scoop would be a positive influence, I'd think.
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« Reply #1284 on: December 19, 2007, 12:02:22 am »
I sent him an email asking for clarification, so, I think I will be OK.

in other news, a power cable for a laptop costs ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR DOLLARS. this is like a cruel joke, people. having to constantly borrow my brother's cable because my laptop is about to run out of power, and then his is about to run out of power so he needs it back...
this is not fun.
And of course, we have something like 5 extra power cables lying around, all of which have jive-ass proprietary plugs that won't fit.
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« Reply #1285 on: December 19, 2007, 12:34:05 am »
I dunno what the hell it is about power cables - I was going to buy one of those cables that you can plug into the laptop power port of airplanes since I spend so much time in them. One hundred dollars. Screw that. One of my contacts in the biz says they get left behind on planes "all the time," and that he'll snag one for me.
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« Reply #1286 on: December 19, 2007, 02:16:09 am »
Look on eBay for Christ's sake, do not pay full retail for one of those things. My cell phone power cord was like $30 retail, I got one for $7.99 including shipping.
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« Reply #1287 on: December 19, 2007, 09:10:51 am »
Today I am going to get a boil lanced.
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« Reply #1288 on: December 19, 2007, 12:04:30 pm »
Paul I think you need to one up that man's gif.
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Re: Today I'm gonna...
« Reply #1289 on: December 19, 2007, 02:53:32 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on December 19, 2007, 09:10:51 am
Today I am going to get a boil lanced.

I could not possibly be more not-clicking on that link.
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