Because I teach in the Asian American Studies department, usually the majority of my students are Asians. So if there ever was a laboratory to find out if Asian kids really are smart, model students, my classroom would be it (methodologists, just look the other way).
So today, as they sit there taking their midterm, I compile for you the evidence: these are the things that my model minorities have accomplished in just the past eight weeks. Be proud...
1 - Decide you want to take my course a month into the semester.
2 - Wait until the night before the midterm to officially register. (Most of my reading is on an electronic blackboard accessible only to registered students. And they turn in assignments that way too.)
3 - Figure out that I don't collect papers because you're supposed to upload them. (Yo, read the syllabus).
4 - Habitually leave class during the break.
5 - Then have the nerve to ask for extra credit.
6 - Make slides for your presentation but forget to turn them in.
7 - Make slides for your presentation--with 12 point font.
8 - Answer a question (on your slide) without understanding all the words in the question.
9 - Can't define self-determination. (Break it down. Self?)
10 - Ask me if you should put your name on all those sheets of loose leaf paper with all your answers on them. (Can you read directions?)
And my favorite excuse so far this semester:
**Professor, I accidently dropped my study guide into a puddle, so could I possibly have another copy to study with?**
Midterms collected. I hope they make me laugh more than cry.
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