socially inept people

Spent the weekend scoring some 200+ English Placement Tests. The EPT is a writing exam that students who plan to enter the California State University system must take to be placed in the proper first year English course.

There was a dearth of howlers this time around, but here are a few. (The prompt basically asked students to indicate whether they were for or against same-sex public education):

"How in God's name are you going to get two socially inept people to procreate?"

For maelstrom = "malestorm"

"Chicks over dicks! Bros over Hos!"

"Girls rule, boys drool."

And my favorite, one astute thinker explained that same-sex schools were sure to "erect homosexuals." Well, that goes without saying, no?

Hopefully during the May exam, we'll get more laughs per hour. The scoring is a three day marathon in Concord, CA (East Bay, kind of). John and I ended up having a couple of enjoyable meals with another Jon--this one a Jonathan from CSU, Sacramento--at Turkish and Mexican restaurants. During breaks, the CSU faculty complained bitterly about the astoundingly corrupt and unresponsive CSU administration. My sense is that morale among the faculty hasn't been this low in a very long time. Still, it was good to commiserate with other mistreated CSU faculty.