Tag: i hate grading

philosopherking1887:

I’ve been trying to maintain a low level of intoxication while grading: still cogent enough to reason, but buzzed enough not to want to kill myself or my students. I think I overshot on the alcohol today… but I’m still feeling homicidal.

I finished grading, returned the papers, and entered all the grades. I haven’t left my apartment in 3 days. I have 3 job applications due tomorrow. I kind of want to cry.

I’m going to have to go through this drill again in a month. Remind me to spread out the grading over more than 4 days.

Grading is the absolute worst part of a job in academia.

Why are kids these days always saying things are “subjective”? In the papers I’m grading, on this hellsite… just because disagreement is possible, even reasonable disagreement, doesn’t mean it’s merely subjective. Saying “it’s subjective” just ends the conversation, whether that’s about different cultures’ standards of morality, different interpretations of texts (including popular movies), or different tastes in art. Chocolate vs. vanilla ice cream, that’s subjective. About other things, there are facts that can be agreed on, there are rules of rational engagement, there are interpretive constraints and some basic principles that the interlocutors probably have in common. I’m getting to be as sick of the word “subjective” as I am of “problematic.”