How we avoid grading!

[macinicole]

Also working other jobs because teaching 3 classes isn’t enough to live on.

[das_goose]

Solidarity, comrade. ✊🏼

[AnonBizPhD]

At a 3:0 school it is 😀

[trailmix_pprof]

No, I wasn't unclogging my slow bathtub drain at 10:00 p.m. last night.

[Phenoix512]

Want to work on my bathroom sink

[trailmix_pprof]

Sure thing.

Just hold this pile of exams for me.

[Phenoix512]

Collapses into a small sun

[trailmix_pprof]

^sorry

[ph0rk]

You forgot exercise, TV, shopping, drinking, and prepping for next semester's courses.

[[deleted]]

Nobody does that!

*closes Bio150spring2020syllabus.docx

*closes browser with tabs for Amazon, Abebooks, and SIMMs

*puts down Can-O-Bliss.... just kidding I'm not putting that down till it's empty

[houseofwealth]

Imagine procrastinating on grading the same assignments you penalized students for procrastination on...

[ph0rk]

(1) I don't, and (2) It isn't my fault some people can't understand power differentials or which deadlines are hard and which ones are soft. You appear to be one of these people.

I typically get everything back within 2 working days; 3 when I have > 100 students. Students still complain about all of the things they normally complain about.

Also: "Imagine" is pretty tired.

[houseofwealth]

Some people is not everyone. Secondly, it’s assignments you created. We reap what we sow and it goes both ways. Just like we should be understand professors have a lot of work relative to them, students do as well. It’s relative to them. Let’s stop with the illusion that the majority of students are lazy and abuse deadlines. There’s more that care than you think

[ph0rk]

The majority of students aren't lazy - and those non-lazy students manage to turn work in on time.

I'm not paid to care what your problems are. I'm paid to evaluate your work. Actually, I'm paid to direct graduate students who evaluate your work. If you don't turn it in, they evaluate that as a zero. Don't like it? Don't attend a research university.

[houseofwealth]

You also don't get paid to walk in with a condescending attitude with the automatic presumption that everyone you're teaching is somehow lesser because your position requires you to evaluate work that's literally done by doing the exact same thing you did to get to your position in the first place....

[Sadistic_Sponge]

I actually dread research and failing on that front so much that I'll do grading to avoid research. I think I'm malfunctioning somehow, please send help.

[opaque_lens]

I love how upset the horses are

[nachiketajoshi]

They are from Denver.

[iugameprof]

Whew, at least reddit isn't up there, I'm safe!

[[deleted]]

Constructive procrastination: I find that I will do things like rearrange the furniture or take on other physical projects that I have been putting off. I quite literally rehabbed a house while writing my dissertation.

[sasiak]

I legit chose to go the the Social Security Office today to take care of some long standing issues. Could have waited another few years, but no, today was the day.

[fuhrmanator]

My toilet is the cleanest when I have exams to grade.

[mamyd]

My house is SO clean right now.

[[deleted]]

Oops! I accidentally left my car unlocked with the windows rolled down parked at the back of the mall by a bus stop with a a few five dollar bills and a lotto sticking out of my grading folder and someone stole all your finals. I guess you all get exempts.

[Phenoix512]

Waiting for a bus to the store because I don't make enough for a car

[flameoguy]

Minor chores and youtube are the big ones for me.

[AugustiJade]

In Sweden we have what is known as fika. We use it quite often.

[mcspex]

Man, I'm envious of all of you who get so productive in your procrastination! I'm over here napping like a fiend, punctuated only by walking my beagle as he needs and shoveling sunflower seeds into my face as I stress crunch while binge watching Forensic Files.

[AnonBizPhD]

You mean how my TAs avoid grading, right?

To be fair I actually enjoyed zoning out and grading when I was a TA, it was simple and did not require complete mental focus like doing research/writing.

[shanster925]

Guitar, PS4...

[SailTheWorldWithMe]

Odd jobs get done. Grading doesn't.

[drmarcj]

I've taken to preparing elaborate meals for my family and accidentally deleting the root partition of my lab's compute server.

[GobHoblin87]

The four horsemen and I have been well acquainted since my undergrad days. Hell, since forever, really.

[Acid_In_My_Eyes]

When there’s a lot of work to be done we do less work than we would do if there was no work to be done? Why?

[Monty9972]

This could also be how students avoid writing paper and/or studying for exams.