Ok, so I’m not promising a great end to this story, but here goes…
So today was the deadline for students to turn in writing portfolios as a graduation requirement. Talk about making lots and lots of students crazy and frantic. Thankfully it seems every year more and more students get it turned in the day before or earlier than the deadline day. Here’s how it went today for some students:
Student: Oh, I should turn that portfolio thing in today. Ok, let’s see what I need for that… 3 papers, and an essay reflecting on those three papers. Ok, when’s it due… 5pm and the time right now is… 3:00pm… hmm, can I get an appointment in the Writing Room.
Phone call from student to me asking for an appointment: Can I get an appointment for 3:30:
ME: Nope. We’re booked until 4:30.
Student: aw man, no way to get in sooner?
ME: Nope, Absolutely not. Unless you want to come here now and work on it and see if someone doesn’t show for an appointment or someone has a very short appointment. I can’t promise anything.
Student shows up to the writing room and sets themselves up at a computer and starts frantically typing away. Student does end up getting some consultation time in, by the grace of god another student didn’t use their entire 30 minutes. 4:30 rolls around and I announce there’s 30 minutes left. Student frantically prints their papers, and brings them to me
ME: you need the grey writing portfolio they sell in the bookstore.
Student goes running off and comes back 10 minutes later. I look over their contents to make sure they have everything together, make sure they’ve filled out all the necessary information on the folder, ask the student a few questions to make sure they pulled the folder together right, annnnnd THWACK! Down the receiving stamp, smile at them and tell them they’re done. They look at me like… that kinda sucks all that worrying and the ending just kinda falls off there.
One student did ask me for a hug, it was so anticlimactic to him. :) life’s great. There’s a lot of build up for things and then it just fizzles off with no pops or anything. Welcome
