Ahoy there!

I thought my students were bad enough with their last minute assignment extensions, but I never would have predicted this.

A student came to see me today looking very serious. He explained that he got zero for a certain part of the assignment and wanted to know why. Then he said:

I saw this accident just after it happened yesterday morning. I was on the shuttle from Tamaki to the city campus and we must've come around the corner literally just after it happened.

A student writes this on the discussion forum today:

I've been browsing 404 pages lately:

I managed to get myself down to Sylvia Park today to check out the new shopping centre and supermarkets.

Our department is undergoing restructuring. The University is going to make about one third of the staff redundant. I won't rant on the fact that many people in the department think the University's official rationale for the restructuring is unjust; it is going to happen regardless because they need the money for other things.

My students had an assignment due yesterday. They have had this assignment for 5 weeks now, and I gave them a four day extension because the due date clashed with a semester test and assignment in a course most of them were taking.

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