August 07, 2004
Busted!
By Jim Dallas
Once again, Professor DeLong is well aware of the fact you haven't been studying (slacker):
What impresses me about this is how much Bush's answer sounds exactly like the answers you read on the short-essay exams of students who are so unprepared that the question itself makes no sense to them. Classic strategy: scratch around with a few jargony tautologies, and then change the subject to something unrelated but on which the student feels solid. End with something the professor has obviously been pushing.
What's sad is that I've employed this strategy myself on several occasions -- with mixed results.
Posted by Jim Dallas at August 7, 2004 11:19 PM
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My God, he is right. Fifteen years of college teaching, and it was staring me right in the face. Of Course, i didn't vote for the guy, so I guess that means I gave hima 0.
With grade inflation rampant in America, evidently we have a president graded on the curve.
He was a C student, after all. And God knows he wouldn't have gotten into Yale or Harvard Business without being a legacy, so it is only natural that the poor man has no freakin' clue what any of the reporters are talking about.
ain't nuthin' wrong with bein' a C student. unless you have an easy major, of course. what was his major, anyways?
No, there is nothing wrong with being a C student - not everyone can be at the top of the class. But I would like MY President of the United States to have been an achiever, not the mediocre student.
When it comes to the guy who makes decisions that literally can mean life or death for millions of people, I prefer to have the guy who graduated Phi Beta Kappa, not the guy who graduated in the middle of his class.
