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I'm not sure why you (and, apparently, several students) are assuming that a simple, straightforward question is actually a trick that demands a complex, rambli
by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I'm not sure why you (and, apparently, several students) are assuming that a simple, straightforward question is actually a trick that demands a complex, rambling answer.
- cosmotic 2y agoI was asked this numerous times I college and it gave me anxiety every time I had to answer it. I simply could not understand why anyone would be interested in my response, so I couldn't synthesize anything to my audience (the person asking).
- PhasmaFelis 2y agoIt sounds like the trouble is that people are putting a lot of effort into trying to come up with a detailed lie that will flatter the professor's expectations, when (as I read the OP) the professor has no expectations and actually wants the simple truth. So everybody loses. Maybe teachers need to start putting a "there are no wrong answers" disclaimer on these things.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoExperience, I assume; IME, one of the more annoying things about school was that prose questions expected you to ramble on for pages and pages about something that really deserved about a paragraph.