Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Professor Insists On Lengthy Essay Being On One Page, Students Comply


Well, that professor got exactly what they asked for. Sometimes, as a student you encounter a teacher who seems to carry on in such a way that indicates they're the one who ultimately needs to be schooled. Fortunately, these students had their wits about them, and happily, maliciously complied. Can't imagine that the teacher was too stoked about the outcome. 

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Blue - r/MaliciousCompliance + Join u/Lunatic976 · 5d 10 3 6 3 4 8 3 1 "I need your long essay on a SINGLE page." - Yes, ma'am. M When I was a college sophomore, we had this professor, Mrs. Wang, in Religion Studies who would act like her subject should be our top priority. Although we came from different majors, Religion Studies is just a filler subject needed for students in this Catholic college.

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Text - She wanted us to come every meeting because attendance is a part of her grade (which was fine by me). But she would give us too many research assignments for so little time. This class is a T-TH one. So if she gives us three research assignments on Tuesday, the outputs are expected to be submitted on Thursday same week. This started a problem on all of us since we also have a lot of things to do from major subjects. But it would be a hassle to faila subject like this. Retaking a major sub

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Text - A classmate of mine, Nathan, asked Mrs. Wang about the single-page thing. Nathan asked if we could submit multiple pages of the essay to accomodate the 4000- word essay she was asking us. "You are all stubborn. 4000-word essay in a single page. That simple." Mrs. Wang was already in her early-60s that time so I don't think she had an idea of what a compressed 4000-word in a single page would look like when printed. In every subject, we have a FB group for announcements, discussions betwee

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Text - The night before the submission, we were having a problem with our outputs. Some classmates who were done with the essay tried to print their outputs. The font was too small, even though the margin was already adjusted. Here comes the malicious compliance. Nathan, who was still a little pissed about the whole situation, posted a status on our group. "Let's give her what she wants. 4000 words in a single page." The comments were blowing up. Some commented they were thinking of the same and

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Text - The next day, we were all excited about our plan. One by one, we placed our papers on her table. As she was scanning on some papers, she went ballistic. "Why are the words in these too small?!" Nathan raised his hand, "Ma'am you were clear about a 4000-word essay on a single page. That's what it looks like." Mrs. Wang couldn't contain her anger. She realized she was wrong. Instead of apologizing, she just told us to reprint our outputs and submit them on Tuesday next week. We all agreed.

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