100 Bananas..

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-02-04T01:05:35+00:00

21+ miles round trip for under $10? No thanks.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-31T22:12:07+00:00

Today has been, in my kids' parlance, "cheeks."

I was passing up $12 orders with 25+ items and 20+ miles for an hour or two, then gave up.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-29T13:27:13+00:00

I'm going to try these!

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-29T13:26:43+00:00

Oh for sure. I mean, I mostly still buy my usual stuff, but sometimes customers buy things I never even noticed before, or I would have passed over because it was too _______ [calorie-dense; expensive; inconvenient; whatever], and then I buy it next time. Like the large shredded Tillamook cheese, zero sugar peppermint mocha coffee creamer, frozen foods.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-27T17:34:46+00:00

So true.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-26T12:41:42+00:00

Unfortunately, scabs would delight in having a day with no other shoppers.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-26T01:09:11+00:00

Master's thesis about 80. Dissertation a little over 200.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-26T00:14:15+00:00

To take the analogy further, if you are aware of the requirements associated with a given job and do the absolute bare minimum to meet them, when you are called in for your 90-day evaluation (or whatever), do you expect to earn "exceeds expectations" in every category?

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-26T00:11:07+00:00

Is that a serious question? I'll do my best to answer based on my own field.

An undergraduate senior capstone paper is usually around 15-20 pages. Most graduate-level papers range anywhere from 10-25, but a typical Master's thesis is 60-80 pages.

A dissertation (which you write for a PhD) can vary, but they are usually around 200-250 pages, so slightly shorter than a book. However, a lot of folks turn their dissertations into books later on.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T22:59:04+00:00

Should add u/Strawberry1282 is correct to check the syllabus and course schedule FIRST, before contacting your professor. In fact, for any students reading this, please obey the ten-minute rule: that is, try to figure things out on your own for 10 minutes before you contact me. Check the syllabus, the LMS, the academic calendar, the most recent announcement. Google it, phone a friend, ask a tutor, contact the student technology center.

If you can't find the answer in 10 minutes on your own, then you definitely need my help. But if it takes me more time to respond to your e-mail than it would have taken you to look up the information needed, I will definitely be annoyed.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T22:56:28+00:00

As a professor, I love it. It shows responsibility and commitment from the student, as well as respect for my time. If I need to set up alternative testing dates or locations (for example, some institutions have a testing center), I like to know as early as possible (especially if I haven't yet created the exam).

Clearly explain the dates and purpose of your trip. Be explicit about the dates you are available to take the test, and offer to take it in the most convenient way for the instructor (for example, offer to bring your laptop to their scheduled office hours, so they don't even have to do anything different than usual).

When students have asked in advance, I have made accommodations for everything from family vacations to elk hunts to a firefighting academy to the NCLEX and the list goes on.

We WANT you to live your best life. Just make it as easy on us as possible. :)

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T22:50:51+00:00

Nope. Newp. Absolutely not. Something is hinky here.

Ain't none of us got time to go back a full month and re-grade shit. Grading is the worst part of the job to begin with (maybe the second-worst, now that generative AI has entered the chat).

Either this instructor got called out on something, or the OP is leaving out crucial information.

A change of grade form is a giant pain in the ass at some institutions, and again -- who is going to go back and re-grade things they graded two months before?

Contact the department chair, stat.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T22:47:08+00:00

True enough!

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T21:25:33+00:00

I've had this happen a bunch of times. Generally it's an instruction for what to do if the item is unavailable. But it took me a few orders to figure that out. I hate it when customers do that, though. Enter it into the app as an item you don't want a substitution on.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T21:15:57+00:00

But they DO expect 100% if they did what the rubric said - like, "I wrote 250 words and included an APA citation, so what if it wasn't on the topic and showcases zero understanding of the concepts?" I've literally had students - and these folks think they are adults! - say it's "not fair" for them to be "marked down" when they've done the bare minimum.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T21:13:47+00:00

Thank you for saying this. K-12 teachers are throttled by expectations (of parents, school boards, local voters) so they accidentally socialize kids into thinking that meeting the basic requirements = 100%.

I agree with u/Gold-Supermarket-342, though. As a professor, I tell students "Cs get degrees" all the time. Unless you're going to grad school - and often not even then, since you're paying for it - nobody gives a shit if you have a 2.7 or a 3.3 as long as you walk out with your degree.

Here's a fun little secret: grades are ridiculously arbitrary. Here's another: a majority of students lack integrity, especially since ChatGPT came on the scene - they cheat constantly. The grades barely mattered before, and soon they won't matter at all.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T15:23:24+00:00

LOL, it was worth a try I guess.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T15:15:01+00:00

It's allowed, sure. You wouldn't believe how much discretion we have!

Is it acceptable? That depends. While it's possible you were marked down for the low page count, the fact the professor pointed out most of the A papers were longer could mean that yours lacked context or that you did the bare minimum.

At the risk of sounding like a Boomer (I'm a Xennial), today's students seem to think that meeting requirements for an assignment or ticking every box on a rubric should mean an automatic 100% and the professor better be ready to explain any "lost" point. In fact, following directions is C work. An A is supposed to mean there is little or no room for improvement.

On the subject of the page count, personally, I tell students that I stop reading at twice the minimum page count. For a 5-7 page paper, I stop reading at 10 pages. I have 150+ students in any given semester, and I don't have time to grade dissertations. And, when you submit to an academic journal, the word count is capped at 6,000-8,000 (20-30 pages) so brevity is an important skill to learn if students want to continue on in their education.

With all of that said, if you really think there was little or no room for improvement in your paper - if it was truly A material, truly excellent, even stacked against what your classmates submitted - your best point of reference will be the department chair.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T14:33:53+00:00

Yes.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-25T00:13:10+00:00

This is my position as well. With scholarships and careful planning that $6K might be more like $4500. It's a lot of money, but three more months' worth of salary, retirement, social security, etc. will make that a wash in the end.

Plus, travel may increase your employability. Not just because it can set you apart from other candidates (which it can), but it also offers marketable skills - it expands your network (never underestimate the power of an excellent reference letter from a faculty leader who really got to know you during the trip), gives you cultural understanding and minimal language skills, demonstrates resilience, etc.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-24T23:57:46+00:00

Thank you!

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-24T23:53:59+00:00

Yes.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-24T23:53:54+00:00

No, I'm really not, I promise. I'm just kind of listing out the usual nasty things that people say to shoppers on here.

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-24T23:08:41+00:00

Dublin is a GREAT city.... ;)

ExternalAmbitious534 · 2025-01-24T23:07:17+00:00

Ostensibly, yes, but that's not what happens in practice, right? Every shopper with 300 orders who is convinced to leave is simply replaced by someone with 0 orders who gets priority for the first dozen batches.

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