Just now I wrote in the margin of a student paper, "This omission is everywhere."
Not helpful! Even if the student recognizes omission, he's unlikely to be enlightened by the image of an omnipresent absence.
In my defense, midterm grades are due next week so I've been grading a lot of stuff, some of it written in handwriting so tiny and faint that reading it requires the assistance of a scanning electron microscope. One student (this is true) could not figure out how to save his document so instead uploaded a photograph of the computer screen on which his document appears.
Yesterday I had technical difficulty showing a clip of a speech in class and a student instantly solved the problem for me, hurrah. Today I've had to email students in that same class to tell them that if they're summarizing the content of a speech by President John F. Kennedy, it's not appropriate to keep referring to him as "John" as if he's their bestie. Show some respect!
And now I need to finish grading today's wave of student work before tomorrow's tsunami of work comes roaring in. All this grading makes me wish I could find myself an omnipresent absence and slowly sink into it.
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