The highlights and lowlights of being the famous author of "The Dog Ate My Disk and Other Tales of Academic Woe".
(Funny essay. I recommend it to my fellow teachers.)
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October 31, 2007
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Let's swap our best excuses. One time a student was absent for two weeks from a class I was teaching. There was an exam during this time. The student came to my office and asked if she could make it up. I asked her where she had been. She told me she had decided to drop the class, but then changed her mind.
Posted by: John S. | October 31, 2007 at 05:58 AM