Best Valley Boy Exam Essay Line Ever!

It reads:

Norman Angell was, like, SOOOOOOOO wrong!

Comments

[andres]

One of my history professors used to take down the best gems from his midterm exams and read them out loud to the class the week after (without, of course, revealing the hapless writer's identity). You should try it in the future to give your students a chuckle for a change.

[vt codger]

My reaction to your test as posted was that anyone who gave a test like that knowing that he or she had to read the test papers and grade them is either insane or superhuman. I'm leaning toward superhuman.

[Todd]

I used to collect gems like this when I taught. My favorite of all time was this one: "An ideal mind is the devil's playground."

[Dan'l]

From a paper this semester on Sex and the City: "Carrie is a New Yorker, not an American."

[abc _d]

North Dakota bank giving big money to employees to spend on charity
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FARGO, N.D. - A bank in North Dakota is spending big bucks to let its employees play Santa Claus.

State Bank and Trust in Fargo says it is giving $1,000 to each full-time employee and $500 to each part-time employee on one condition: that they send the money on people in need.

Banks officials say the 500 or so employees can choose an individual case, pool their money for a larger project or collaborate with donors outside the bank.

The only restriction is that they do not use the money for themselves, their families or families of co-workers.

They've also been told to document their good deeds with a video camera.
Essentially in capitalist terms this is called a tover withholding tax. You are asked to fan out into the street and look at the local people. They're white or maybe even brown. The majority rich are white. The majority white are vcry secretly not rich. The streets are rather empty. Surely this is a bank. The world is a tax. Suddenly a police officer appears. He represents usury and wants to document your ethics. But the city, of course,, is really a midtown Pudong.

[David]

While in grad school I taught stat for business majors, a large freshman/soph class, lecture and discussion sections. Testing done en masse. One question, added to fill out the total to 100 pts, went "Your friend says such and such about the Central Limit Theorem. Explain how you would correct your friend and indicate to him how the Central Limit Theorem should be applied."

one student (a valley boy, no doubt) answered, "I would not have someone who cared about the Central Limit Theorem as a friend."

He got a point or two for chutzpah.