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American writers are chock-full of homespun originality and pith. How to account for the dreck produced by American students? I don’t think it’s our fault; it’s what they do to us. Faulkner said that writing is about killing your darlings...
And currently, the office is working hard to finish up changes in the grading system—recalculating each student’s GPA to conform to a four-point scale and notifying each student of this change.
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.s are vicious or ludicrous...
Zidel: Do NOT get involved with your TF or professor. It is a bad idea for many reasons and a great conflict of interest. Also, what if it doesn’t work out? Keep in mind this person is grading your work and section could become a very uncomfortable...
Kagan noted that because of the structure of legal education, the Law School—unlike the College-—does not have “a middle strata” of graduate students to help with grading and instead must rely entirely on its professors.