Like many academics, grading exams is my least-favorite part of the job. So I was happy when my fiancee suggested that the exams should instead be graded by the Vulcan bear I got her for her birthday, assisted by a Koala. What could be more logical?
Like many academics, grading exams is my least-favorite part of the job. So I was happy when my fiancee suggested that the exams should instead be graded by the Vulcan bear I got her for her birthday, assisted by a Koala. What could be more logical?
Fedya says:
Just give them all F’s. :-)
January 18, 2010, 8:19 amdearieme says:
You don’t use the “throwing them down the stair method”?
January 18, 2010, 8:53 amtheobromophile says:
Perhaps a stuffed mascot from one of your alma maters?
By the way, thank you for the return of Monday Bear Blogging!
January 18, 2010, 9:41 amHugh says:
Fascinating, Captain. It’s like nothing we’ve seen before.
January 18, 2010, 9:51 amarch1 says:
Perhaps your fiancee was subtly suggesting that you quit whining (by demonstrating that the task was…bearable)
January 18, 2010, 9:52 amtheobromophile says:
Unless your exam was on space law or drug law (or maybe the Fourth Amendment), lawyer teddy bears or judge teddy bears might be more apropos.
January 18, 2010, 10:14 ambyomtov says:
Like many academics, grading exams is my least-favorite part of the job.
A little syntactical Freudian slip there, perhaps? Been having trouble with your colleagues?
January 18, 2010, 10:43 amChrisIowa says:
Bear, as in one bear did the grading with the assistance of a koala. A koala is not a bear.
January 18, 2010, 11:42 amanonymous says:
First Pluto isn’t a planet, now Koalas aren’t bears. Where will this insanity end?!
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January 18, 2010, 12:25 pmtheobromophile says:
Koalas are marsupials! So I guess today is also Monday Marsupial Blogging. :)
January 18, 2010, 1:13 pmFub says:
Vulcan bear, as in Vulcan mind meld.
Thus the evil scheme Prof.
January 18, 2010, 1:31 pmMoriartySomin cleverly disguised with this fuzzy and cuddly facade. Now he will know which students have rocks in their heads. The only question is when he will declare “I’m a law professor, not a bricklayer!”Hugh says:
If you’d seen it you’d know…the whole thing’s a weapon! It must be!
January 18, 2010, 4:29 pmThrobert McGee says:
I thought that real Vulcan teddy bears had six-inch fangs, or something like that. (Or at least I have a vague memory of Spock’s mom saying as much to either Kirk or Bones.)
January 18, 2010, 10:51 pmAmanda says:
Prof. Somin,
I absolutely love this post! Though it may make me sound superficial to say so, given that all the VC contributors have written intriguing articles about law, politics, social issues, and economics, I have to admit that this is one of my favorite posts on the VC site so far. I’ve been slogging through my Moot Court brief and my first spading assignment this week, so I needed something to brighten my day today. These adorable bears have certainly helped cheer me up! Hope they keep up the good work on their grading! :)
January 19, 2010, 1:44 pmv says:
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