This is an academic success seminar?

[stevensmama]

<p>S is on academic probation, so he’s taking an academic success seminar. This is one of his assignments, as it was posted on Blackboard [emphasis added]:</p>

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Wed, Jan 20, 2010 – Journal Entry </p>

<p>I hope that you are working on your Time Management Assisgnment. Here is the information I promised for the journal entry. This is due by Janaury 25, 2010. Please writing about the follwong in a journal format and place it into the digital drop box.</p>

<p>Change a habit. Select a bad habit that is hurting your ability to effectively management time. Identify the bad habit. Many people find that in managing time, it helps to replace a bad habit with a new, more positive habit. Instead of spending time oon my old bad habit, I will commit to spending more time on this good habit.

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<p>I wonder if they’re going to cover proofreading or grammar? Nobody’s perfect, and an occasional typo isn’t the end of the world, but this is ridiculous!</p>

[patsmom]

<p>Wow. Just wow.</p>

<p>He ought to write about how he used to have a problem with time management because he spent too much time spellchecking. Instead, he’s going to replace that bad habit with the good habit of increasing his typing speed and avoiding the spellchecker altogether. ;)</p>

[zoeydoggie]

<p>Who is teaching this seminar? I agree, ridiculous. Also a little scary!</p>

[ellemenope]

<p>Is the seminar leader from a foreign country? Or maybe it is a trick–to get kids to read the stuff on the board.</p>

[momma-three]

<p>I get the feeling that the person who wrote that may be a foreign born instuctor, or it was written that way as an instructional aid to reread what you write.</p>

[stevensmama]

<p>The seminar is being taught by the Assistant Dean of Academic Services. She has a very American name, so I doubt that she’s foreign.</p>

<p>Needless to say, I’m becoming less impressed with this college every day…</p>