Fear of Failing

[John Slasher Wersan III]

These are some comments from professors on student papers.

"I don't like your topic, the style of your
writing, or the way you dress."

-Anonymous

"I appreciate the fact that this draft was
done in haste, but some of the sentences that
you are sending out in the world to do your
work for you are loitering in taverns or
asleep beside the highway."

-Dr. Dwight Van de Vate, Philosophy
University of Tennessee at Knoxville

"Ho hum."

-Prof. Don Orr, Calculus
University of Wyoming

"What are you, an idiot?"

-Art History Professor
Yale University

"Like this paper, failures are the stepping
stones to success."

-A.A.
Indian Institute of Technology
Madras, India

"I'm returning this note to you, instead of
your paper, because it (your paper) presently
occupies the bottom of my bird cage."

-English Professor
Providence College

"You should, without hesitation, pound
your typerwriter into a plowshare, your
paper into fertilizer, and enter agriculture"

-Business Professor
University of Georgia

"The world needs ditch diggers, too."

-Prof. Paul Lucas, History
Clark University

"Plaese porrf raed."

-Prof. Michael O'Longhlin
S.U.N.Y. Purchase

Stolen from "Dorm" magazine, Spring 1986 Edition.

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John Wersan
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But my friends don't know what 'dat shit is"

[Rudy M Rumohr]

In article <2...@daemen.uucp> wer...@daemen.UUCP writes:
>These are some comments from professors on student papers.
>
>
> "I don't like your topic, the style of your
> writing, or the way you dress."
>
> -Anonymous
>
>

> "I'm returning this note to you, instead of
> your paper, because it (your paper) presently
> occupies the bottom of my bird cage."
>
> -English Professor
> Providence College
>

One of my personal favorites....

"Yes, I know all about organic gardening, too."

-Mathematics Professor
Rutgers University

I must admit, the original comment didn't apply to a paper, but it is
somewhat applicable.

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Necessity dictates the insertion of an appropriate disclamatory proclamation
into this section of this missive, both for assuredness of legality, and to
satisfy my lust for bombast.

"I've seen sex, and I think it's OK." -- Talking Heads

[Andrew Koenig]

When I was in junior high school, I once got back an exam paper
with something almost illegible scribbled across the top.
After much deciphering, I worked out that it said "penmanship"