教本科生二十多分钟的人都知道,他们能想出各种各样的借口错过考试,学期论文截止日期,和任何其他作业老师给他们的神经。“我的祖母死了,”“狗吃了我的论文,”“我被外星人绑架了。”You've heard them all, right? After 25 years of teaching, I thought so, too, but at last fall's Eastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology (where I gave the keynote address "Student Evaluations: Threat or Menace?"), I heard about student excuses so novel and creative I decided to start collecting them. Having recently subscribed to an electronic mail network for faculty interested in the teaching of psychology, I had no trouble asking hundreds of faculty around the world for the most unusual, bizarre, and amazing student excuses they had ever encountered.
