what a professor really wants.

Posted on | October 17, 2008 | No Comments

The single most asked question by any student when I give an assignment is what do I want!

Students seem to spend an extraordinary amount of time writing, creating, designing to my taste, even I am not sure what that is.

So what do I want?

Something that is exciting.

Something that is WOW.

Something that entertains.

Something that makes me proud.

How often do I get that? Look at the walls in my office! Not too often.

The single most frustrating thing about looking at student work is they are passing in stuff that meets a requirement but does not have any bearing on the pride of the student!

I often ask students if they are happy with the work.

Most of the time they are not!  So why not hand in the work they are happy with?

I never get an answer.

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