Abnormal Psychology (11-18-05)

[crazyvampchick]

Drusilla is reading over last week's essays and growing increasingly angry. She glares at Cameron, then scribbles on an essay, then glares at Cameron again.

"Murder," she snaps, after everyone has signed in. "What drives one to murder another? Ignore petty questions of self-defense or euthanasia. This isn't an ethical debate. What causes one person to murder another? Is it insanity?"

"We're going to work on class projects. Joint class projects. This counts as your midterm grade." Drusilla looks irritated at the thought of handing out projects. "You're going to develop psychological experiments to be run on your fellow students." She thinks for a minute. "You should probably have their permission first, so do a permission slip. And don't hurt the little boys and girls irreversibly. Don't run the experiment, though. That comes later, after your midterms have been approved and the player gets OOC permission from the mods for you to do them."

She looks around. "Pair up. Cameron, you get to be partnered with whoever's left over, or if someone is out today. Then each of you discuss what you'd like to do, and write a 100 word proposal for your experiment. We'll talk about experimental design another time." Drusilla's smile was malicious. "And at that time, we'll introduce you all to hell statistical analysis."

Drusilla looks angry. "Cameron Mitchell. Vala Mal Doran. See me after class. Separately."

"Anyone who has missed a class essay needs to make it up or I'll start giving detentions for missed homework. This includes excused absences. If you'd rather not go back and look up what was missed, come and see me and we'll work out a special project for you to do to make up your grade."

Sawyer: C+ (failure to hand in essay, good participation)
Paige Matthews: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Bagoas: D- (failure to participate in class or hand in essay)
Medusa: D- (failure to participate in discussion, did not hand in make up assignment)
Draco Malfoy: D- (failure to participate in class or hand in essay)
Callisto: A+ (good participation, well thought out essay)
Faith Lehane: A (good participation, good understanding of the word yo, well thought out essay)
Jessica Atreides: B+ (good participation, good essay)
Broots: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Teacher's Note: Multiple personalities? You obviously don't understand. (The A and has been stricken out and replaced with a C.)
Mystique: B+ (excellent essay, failure to add to discussion)
Jonathan suck up Crane: A (good participation, well thought out essay even if he didn't get the point)
Samuel Anders: A (good participation, well thought out essay)
Wednesday Addams: A+ (good participation, well thought out essay)
Jack Harkness: D- (failure to hand in essay, minimal participation)

Excused Absences (11/6/05):
Vala Mal Doran
Jack O'Neill
Oz

Unexcused Absences - Detention
Julian Sark - Is He A Cat Again?

OOC: This was supposed to go up yesterday, but things were insane, and I'm still driving my husband to and from the train station. That ends today, thank God. We can slow-play this as necessary.

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm... never had Dream for a professor, but yeah, class with professor The Tick is cool, and I sure feel a lot more motivated to show up there than here." She looks over at Drusilla.

"So, what? we make up some kind of test and have two different professors give it? She how they do?"

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Ah, see, it's the opposite for me. Don't have the Tick's class, but Dream is . . . well, kind of creepy at first? But actually a really cool teacher. And actually it's not just the tests that I wonder about. Are you more likely to speak up in class when you're not scared of getting picked on by the teacher?" He scratches his nose. "Actually that might be an easier experiment to pull off. Make someone answer a question in front of the class that there's no way they'll know the right answer for, and see how well they do in a scary class versus a non-scary one."

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... we'd have to get students who were already in the classes.... not very scientific, probably, but," she looks up at the professor across the room again, "Then again, I don't think Drusilla's a stickler for strict scientific method here...."

Re: DISCUSSION: CLASS PROJECT

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Unless we could get the teachers to let people sit in for the day, for the project? It'd make it more likely for them to not know the answers." Anders scratches his head again. "I know next to nothing about scientific method either anyway."