Thread: An Observation: The New Breed of Authors Are Using Obscure Words - Page After Page

Originally Posted by 32t

I dislike being judged on things that use opinion.

I enjoy winning a race that the timer is the only judge.

I had a year of art and the first semester with one teacher I got an A. The second I had another teacher and got a C. I didn't change the teachers did.

I concur. And there can be naturally some subjectivity with art, or even essays. And sadly, I think there are a few teachers who allow personal feelings to influence grades; I believe they are in the minority. For my own part, we are always fine-tuning writing rubrics and trying to make them more quantifiable, as hard as that is to do with writing.

I can't say what our art teachers do; we're all so isolated from each other this year. I even had to be the Grinch and shoot down a department Christmas gathering of 20 which an underling tried to set up without running it past me (yeah, I was PISSED that they put me in that position). Oh, well, we had a very successful Secret Santa gift exchange.