10) Send you an e-mail at 11pm (or even 2am) with advising questions or request for a meeting and expect to have an answer by 8am the next morning
9) Enroll in the same course multiple times (but somehow forgot because last time they took the course was two years ago and they didn’t update their degree plan or look at their course completion list online), and then somehow expect you to fix it.
8) Write a long e-mail to the professor telling her how she should be teaching the class (yes, a graduate student did that to one of my colleagues)
7) Make endless grammar/spelling errors like “supposably”, “irregardless”, and “defiantly” (the latter which means something quite different than “definitely” which was the word they meant to use)
6) Use Wikipedia as their main source of citations.
5) Announce to you that they just don’t know how they’re gonna learn anything from their practicum site because they already know more about everybody who works there (Uhm… maybe what you can learn is a bit of humility!)
4) Beg for (or even demand) a grade change when they clearly didn’t earn it. The new generation of students have serious entitlement issues. (A student of one of my colleagues even had the audacity to complain that she got a C in the class, because this was a parenting education class, and parenting is easy so she should get an A…… Uhm, you did not earn an A, because you did crappy work! … And this was a graduate student)
3) Ignore the fact that you went to school for 22 years and have a Ph.D., yet somehow they think it’s okay to call you by your first name (I even had a student call me “Ms. Brigitte” in an e-mail, and I wanted to write back “That’s DR. Brigitte to you!”
2) Walk across the graduation stage as you sit and ponder how they could possibly think they were graduating when they haven’t taken the last two capstone courses.
1) Ask you if they’re required to buy the textbook (“No, I just put it on your syllabus for fun!”)
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