Palm slap to head...

[sleigh]

Aargh! It happened again last night... A student, after having work critiqued by the class, said defensively "Well, I wrote all that just an hour before class." NOT a good defense, because the subtext of that statement is "I think this class is so unimportant that I'm going to give it the least possible effort that I can, and I don't give a damn that I've wasted everyone's time who closely read my work and spent an hour or so writing up a serious critique of it."

Not to mention that the person giving out the grades is sitting RIGHT THERE...

Aargh!