Quotulatiousness

November 9, 2010

The five stages of grading

Filed under: Education, Humour — Tags: — Nicholas @ 19:08

By way of Ilkka’s blog, a new look at the plight of the grad student:

Everyone is familiar with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her stage model of coping with grief popularly known as the five stages of grief. What you may not know is that Kübler-Ross actually developed her theory as a graduate student, basing her conception of the process of loss on the experiences one goes through over a grading weekend.

In coping with grading, it’s important for graduate students and young professors to know that they are not alone and that this process takes time. Not everyone goes through every stage or processes the reality of grading in this order, but everyone experiences some version of at least two of these steps.

Read the whole thing.

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