My Students Know Me Way Too Well

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First, one of my undergrads inserted a semi-relevant baby panda into a presentation. I made the mistake of squeeing and admitting that this made unbiased grading difficult. So the next presenter put an entirely random baby koala on her last slide... Today I think it was a possum. And this one officially described it as a tradition, so I'm going to be seeing scavs off of Cute Overload for the rest of the semester. Fortunately, this has the desirable effect of getting the presentation tone out of the boring-rehash-of-the-lecture gutter that it was in for the first couple weeks.

One of my grad students brought in a picture of her baby chihuahua, but it was actually entirely relevant to the discussion and I don't think any of my undergrads had tipped her off. I wish my grad students would get a little more creative, actually. This semester, the undergrad discussions are going off on wild philosophical tangents and interesting theoretical inferences, while the grads are doing, at best, basic applications of theory. The undergrads keep going overtime, while the grads have managed to keep a discussion running till the end of class maybe twice.