Intro to Art History Papers

Honestly, out of the thirty students in my class five of them wrote on Monet's Waterlilies. From 30,000 B.C. to 2012, five of them wrote on the same cliché series?!?!?! I should have prefaced the assignment by saying, "aaaaand no one can do Impressionism, even though I know your parents had some book on Monet and that is the only art you were exposed to or remember."

Dear Students,

Someone needs to teach you proper email etiquette and consideration. Stop being wanks.

With frustration,
Your abused TA/professor.

Some gems from grading.

I am sure that I did not teach some of these things to my students.


"Bizintin (he means Byzantine) as visible by the over stylization of the sheeps coats which are layeral."
"A bird like man sporting a large penis."
"anonomis"
"perpeses" (perpeses is like porpoises and is almost as good as that kid who wrote bowels instead of bowls)  
"We can approximately date because the build-up builds up at a specific rate." (who is teaching these kids, seriously?)
"Signature to the Atruskans the temple shown has one set of stairs that leads to the padio."
"kroisos sculplor" (kouros sculpture, i'm sure)
"formittable" (trés formidable!)
"...showing the vains....to creat a likness of aperson."