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Obsoleting Grades
I recieved an anonymous hate email this morning that read in total:
You made my grade obsolete. Ugh…You suck like no other
This intrigued me. I’m not sure what it means to “obsolete” a grade. Is this a student, angry at a policy I have made? A former employee angry that they lost their position? I don’t know, but I’m curious.
Posted by windley on April 12, 2006 1:09 PM
Comment from Jeremy P at April 12, 2006 3:38 PM
Well, that anonymous comment was not from me, but as a former student of yours (Fall 1994, programming languages via Scheme) I'll have to say that even though I've never used Scheme since that class, I don't really feel like the knowledge itself is obsolete. Despite its difficulty at the time, it was one of the best CS classes I've ever had.
Anyway, I just popped by your blog because I was listening to an IT Conversations podcast the other day, and I heard you got named as the new director. I just wanted to say congrats.
Comment from Ben at April 15, 2006 10:39 AM
Sounds like an irate student who couldn't handle your class and whose GPA suffered because of it. I doubt a professor would express himself/herself like that. Did you look at the header for any clues on where the e-mail came from?