- “Are we gonna, like, have to know everything?”
- “I came in late. What I miss?”
- “The blue books, what are they for again?”
- In a writing-intensive course: “So, it’s gonna be multiple-choice, right?”
- In said class, after a five-week song and dance about why study guides are not used in the course: “Are you gonna pass out, like, a study guide?”
- From nontraditional 30-something soccer mom leaving a freshman survey classroom: “I’m so [blood-curdling scream] CONFUSED!!!”
- “Alright, okay, so like, alright we only have to just okay, like, write what we remember from what you said in class, we don’t need to like read the book or anything?”
- “I had to miss last week, can I borrow the video and give it back after the test?”
- After assigning the exam for the following Tuesday: “So it’ll be next Thursday, right?”
- From at least fifteen students in a class of over seventy as the exam is being passed out: “I forgot my blue book, can I go buy one and come back, or will I have to take the test later?”
