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Hey everybody! I am moved in to a new home! That’s kind of exciting. Now I have to find some kind of surface to draw on and get some kind of chair to sit in while I draw on it. Fun fact: this comic was drawn in bed! WINK.
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↓ TranscriptPROF: Welcome to Subcultures of the Western World. Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way: if you miss my class three times or more, your grade will go down. If I catch you cheating or plagiarizing, you will fail my class. If you are looking at your phone instead of your notes, you will leave my class. If you don’t take notes, you will fail my class. The last one’s not a rule, but a truth.
PROF: This is an honors anthropology course, so you’re going to be doing some field work. Everyone turn to page four of your syllabus and look at the expectations for your final project. I want a proposal with tentative sources by next week, your annotated outlines will be due the Monday before Thanksgiving break, and your mini-ethnography is due the last week of class.
I shouldn’t even have to say everything’s to be typed and in MLA format, but I know we have some freshmen here.
PROF: If you don’t have the books, get the books today, we’re discussing the first three chapters of the DeMello text on Friday. Any questions?
WREN: I’m a bit too terrified to have questions.
NHI: Don’t worry. She seems tough, but she’s fair, and a great professor. And I can help you out.
WREN: Really? Uh, thanks.
NHI: No problem. I’m really good at this class, this is my third time taking it.
PROF: Welcome to Subcultures of the Western World. Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way: if you miss my class three times or more, your grade will go down. If I catch you cheating or plagiarizing, you will fail my class. If you are looking at your phone instead of your notes, you will leave my class. If you don’t take notes, you will fail my class. The last one’s not a rule, but a truth.
PROF: This is an honors anthropology course, so you’re going to be doing some field work. Everyone turn to page four of your syllabus and look at the expectations for your final project. I want a proposal with tentative sources by next week, your annotated outlines will be due the Monday before Thanksgiving break, and your mini-ethnography is due the last week of class.
I shouldn’t even have to say everything’s to be typed and in MLA format, but I know we have some freshmen here.
PROF: If you don’t have the books, get the books today, we’re discussing the first three chapters of the DeMello text on Friday. Any questions?
WREN: I’m a bit too terrified to have questions.
NHI: Don’t worry. She seems tough, but she’s fair, and a great professor. And I can help you out.
WREN: Really? Uh, thanks.
NHI: No problem. I’m really good at this class, this is my third time taking it.
Oh man! I can so get Wren here – I’m about to start chemistry, and I’ve had my cousin go “I’ll help you – I only failed twice!’
Well, it is entirely possible to learn a course’s material and still fail it–Untreated mental health issues can do that :(–Or retake classes that are awesome. 😛
God I love anthropology. Field work…ethnography….This comic is making me geek out even more.
*sigh* I miss my awesome anthro profs. Who were also usually the most terrifying ones on the first day.
Hear, hear EmilyEmilyEmily. I had to redo two courses due to treatment-resistant depression. It sucked the big one. Thankfully, I had an awesome support system to get me through it.
So are/were you an anthro major, too, RJ?
I once had a teacher say during a test: “Bill, I wouldn’t copy off of Bob, he’s repeating this class.” I lol’d.
@Emilyemilyemily: not helped by the “miss X classes and you’ll lose marks” attitude I’m sure.
I was a writing major and an anthropology minor. But they were usually my favorite classes.
And agree on everyone who says failing a class isn’t necessarily a reflection of your aptitude for it. If I give a character a name in the transcript, they’ve probably got more to say. 😉
Oooo, I didn’t notice she had a name in the transscript. Thanks for pointing that out 😛