Since we have a thread about "stupied teachers" I think it's only fair that I get to whine about stupid students...

Case in point, today was my last lecture day for my Intro to Security class. I had two students from my Advanced class walk in while I'm in mid-lecture and begin to tell me why they were handing in their assignment to me. "Err... I'm lecturing...". They then look and realize.. oops.

It's even more fun when I have a full class and students ask if they can use a computer. To which I usually reply "You are more than welcomed to but this is the wargames. If they toast your machine, I don't want to hear any whining or bitching about it". Without fail, some poor soul who decides to stay get's hosed and whines to me... "MY FINAL REPORT!!!" can be heard from the backrow. (This is my problem why?)

I tell students when lecture "THIS WILL BE ON YOUR TEST/FINAL". When I hand out the test with a question that is specific to what I identified (e.g., name the 4 authentication types -- what you know, what you are, what you do and what you have) I hear "Miss, we didn't study this" (and gawd forbid they look at the colourful slides I did that has a specific slide to each question). Of course along with this is the line "We have an assignment due tomorrow?!!?" eventhough that has been up on the course website for 6 weeks, I've announced it in two classes and sent out an email.

I suppose I should be forgiving however. I mean the first semester I started teaching here I was thrown into Windows 2000 course. First question from a student was "Miss, do I need a hard drive to install the OS?"

There is a reason why we repeat things so many times... trust me.