"Uh, so, I missed class last Wednesday. Can I make that up?"
"Uh, so, no. No you can not."
I have no idea where people get off asking this question: my class is mainly a discussion class. I lecture for a little while about the facts of the matter and what I think is important, but then the rest of the class is mainly student presentations and discussion. How, exactly, do people think they can possibly "make up" a missed discussion?
"What did I miss?" they ask, as if they are expecting an answer. They’re ostensibly waiting for me to rattle off a list of tangible items, and I just can’t. They missed the opportunity to hear my opinions about the novel (clearly the big draw) and to hear the opinions of their classmates. They missed the chance to ask questions, advance arguments, debate points only tangentially related to the subject matter, make obscurely amusing cultural references, embarrass themselves by mispronouncing a word. What do they want me to do, reconvene the entire class and enact the lecture and discussion again for their edification? What did they miss? They missed everything. There’s no going back.
“[You] missed everything. There’s no going back.”
i thinknk im gona go aruound sayign that to random pasersby.
“[You] missed everything. There’s no going back.”
yyeah. mabe get it pirntad ona bumpeer sticker too.
Print me up one, too. I’m sure I’ll have much cause to use it soon…
Oh, me too. Actually, I’d like it on a t-shirt. Oooh, a Zembla Original - sell me one!
Is your university all eager to use New Technologies? You need to, um, make podcasts of each class, with whoever actually shows up, for the rest of the class to attend at their leisure. They can then insert their comments at the appropriate places. The various edited versions are collated, sent round again … eventually the perfect discussion is achieved! You can start with just sound, but one day - a room full of avatars, deep in discussion.
Okay, the details need a little work, but that’s why you need a lot of grant money, and an assistant or two. Maybe there’s some sort of literary or sociological theory that would apply to this situation? Not my field.
u cuould racord lectars on vinal records an play em ovar teh schoal riadio statoin.
u couold also tel em ‘yeah dude ddrop by moy ofiace totaly!’ an whan tehy get their bop em on the head with a malet an stuf em up hte chimney.
“DOINK! UP U GO!”
just for the record….whatever HA HA HA says….
Tell them they missed you telling them the secret of a successful career and a happy life.