onefixedstar | I'm finished marking! (Reply)

And it only took me until 1:30am. But I still need to record the marks. I think my average is going to be too low, which worries me a little. I have never before failed so many people on a test. Perhaps I was too hard on them, but I've marked first year exams before and never had such terrible answers. (Not all of them of course--there were some good answers too. But they were far outnumbered by the bad ones.)

We had a big meeting today about the grad student listserv. Everyone seems to agree that a code of conduct is necessary to avoid future personal attacks such as occurred last week and no one there seemed to feel that they had violated what such a code would require with their postings. I suspect that may be the source of some of our problems.

It's fairly late for me, and so I'm off to bed. (And the hour is my excuse if this posting is at all incoherent. That, and many hours spent reading incoherent sentences.)