Voice of Will: Summer hits

2005-06-06 - 11:56 a.m.
So I have been REALLLLY busy these past couple of weeks, and have not kept this diary well. I apologize, but I have been so busy it has not been easy to even sleep, let alone keep up on my writing.

Why am I so busy you ask? Well we have been having finals for the last 3 weeks. Let me splain, you see, the owner of the school came in on the 1st of may and told all the foreign teachers they could start leaving on June 1. Only one problem. They were scheduled to be in their last week of class before finals on june 1. so what happened? For all the oral english teachers it meant their class schedules had moved up 3 weeks. They had to give a final on may 20th (ish) and have grades in by may 25th. They then could start leaving to go back to the US, Canada, or South Africa anytime after june 1.

Well we were roped into helping these teachers do their finals, and have subsequently been asked to help people pack up, to help store things etc... And to top it all off. I'm not a SIAS teacher, I'm a BGS teacher (through Fort Hayes State University in Kansas) and I have a 15 week class, that cannot be cut short. So while everyone else finished may 20th, I don't get to finish until june 11. So this week I'm getting ready for my finals, trying to check grades, make sure our friends have their stuff packed, and generally try to just not pull out my hair.

And that is a real problem now. The cheating is getting so noticable it is not funny any more. I have in my hand a paper that is WORD FOR WORD plagiarized from the internet. WORD FOR WORD. What am I stupid? phuleeze. One would think that at a college level you wouldn't be so stupid as to take something word for word. H* I never even did that. Why not just write on your forhead in permanent marker, "Stupid".
gRRRrrrr. It ranks up there with this one. I'm out with a student yesterday (nwo he is one of my better students, and is very hones) he gets a phone call from another student. She tells him taht tomorrow she will be taking her final exam from 8 am until 10 am. and that she will text message him during the final to get the answers. he told her no he wouldn't do that. He then told me about it. It reallllllly bothered him, adn it realllllly pisses me off. Most of the classes here have been taught from the stand point that if you don't cheat, you should pass. How tough is that, jsut dont' cheat and you can get a d (which is passing). Try to study, and you can get an a.

If the students here just studied as hard as they cheated, they would all ahve As

Will