Thursday, May 08, 2008

How to Fail Logic...

The process for failing Logic is really quite simple -- all you need to do is to use any of the following techniques -- choose the method you find most attractive...

1) Ignore the instructor when she says you need to come to class. Think this is just like all the other classes and skip to your heart's content. Don't let the fact of quizzes keep you coming, or the fact that you are essentially learning to think in a new language phase you -- it really is more important to get that extra hour of sleep... so go ahead and do it.

2) Don't do the homework -- because, after all, if it were important the instructor would collect it. Instead, come to class with an empty notebook and no questions to ask. Ignore the instructor when she tells you that the class content will be doing the problems you need to do -- and thus answering the questions. Allow the students who are on the ball to ask all the questions THEY have... because you really don't know which of the problems are hard and which are not.

3) Don't take advantage of the tutor. She's friendly and available at a variety of times -- but, you are too smart to need it -- even though the instructor tells you that you'll probably need to see her or the instructor from time to time to get questions answered. Also, ignore the fact that you can get bonus points from meeting with the tutor -- those points get added onto your quiz scores to let you be exempt from the exam... Instead, figure that the tutor is getting paid because the college likes her, not that this is a class many students have problems completing... because you know better than the instructor and college administration -- who can see the real numbers about student completion, and know that you are different and special.

4) Miss a quiz and be too disorganized to make the deadline for re-taking your quiz. Instead, tell your instructor that you want to take it, have her send it to the testing center etc... and then let the quiz be returned when it expires. Figure that the information on that quiz isn't important, or that you can just do extra-good on the next one to average it out to OK...

5) Skip exam review -- see above about classwork and homework. Add to that, the fact that your final exam grade (because you're required to take it -- when much of the class is exempt) will BE your class grade --- so, how important could exam review be?

4 comments:

Bardiac said...

Oh, I know, I know (/jumping up and down in my seat with my arm raised and waving)

All of the above!!!!!! The answer is all of the above!!!!!

Inside the Philosophy Factory said...

Actually -- this is a wonderful system -- a student who takes any one of these to the extreme can manage to fail the class -- or, they can choose buffet style from the available options to suit their tastes and needs...

Seeking Solace said...

HAHAHAHA!!!!

It's kind of funny that they use some logic to fail logic.

Bitty said...

A wry smile coming from this corner...

It's really quite amazing how some students don't see the connection between actions (or lack thereof) and results.

In fact, their thinking is quite illogical.