Profs: They're Just Like Us! Typo Edition
March 2, 2015 at 12:12 pm
Ever made an embarrassing typo or sent an uncomfortable email to your professor? Fear not – they'll be sure to understand, because professors are just like us!
In a long, intimidating paragraph of instructions for a paper, one English professor warned students about the dangers of not proofreading, only to inadvertently fall victim to a typo. But what if this typo was intentional? What if the lovely faculty at Penn are so clever that they strategically place their misspellings to illustrate a newly-developed pedagogy? Teaching doesn't just take place in the classroom – it takes place at 2 a.m. when you're hopelessly scrolling through Canvas. We'll cut this professor some slack, though, because we've certainly made "other others" before. Profs: they're just like us!
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