One of my students cleverly updated the old “the dog ate my homework” meme, today.
When my advanced students write essays for me, they are required to email them to me before the class starts – that gives me an electronic copy and it makes it easy to negotiate corrections and due dates, etc.
Today, I was pointing out I hadn’t received an essay from her in my email inbox, and she said, in all seriousness, “my dog bit my internet cable, so I couldn’t send the email.”
Nice excuse. I asked if she printed it out, she said she didn’t have a printer at home. “Really?” I asked.
She handed me something scrawled on some scrap paper, probably in the ten minutes before class started. “I see,” I concluded.
I was laughing very hard, though. The students couldn’t understand why. I tried to explain, but it was lost on them.
