Marking student' thesis..

I have 7 thesis to finish marking within a week's time, meaning 1 thesis in a day. This is a pretty demanding task for me considering, in the norm, I usually take 2-3 days to mark an undergraduate thesis. Perhaps I am too meticulous and corrects every grammer as well as content error that I come across. One colleague told me it takes her 2hrs straight to finish marking a thesis, I could not possible achieve this level of speed reading. As it is, my best record is 1 thesis a day, to justify student spending close to 3-4 months writing their thesis. Good thesis are easy to the eyes and relaxing to the brain, but an average thesis requires more effort on my part as an examiner, to try accounting for every single marks deduction. Thesis marking is not all stressful,this time round the content are quite humorous. I have this line on the abstract of one thesis that says '...A total of 185 mothers of an infant were surveyed...' another statement '...antimicrobial resistance E.coli bacteria...'try figure this one out.
A lot of students did not do well in discussion. Discussion is elaborating and explaining the results obtained and comparing experimental results obtained with that reported in the literatures, many students write paragraphs after paragraphs of introducing the principles of methodology, basically stating the obvious....and repeating what has already been mentioned in the methodology section...

Students are the pride of teachers...

I have many students that come and go in my 4 years of being a lecturer. Students of different character, personalities and cultural background. My office is filled with little tokens of appreciation from students such as postcards, keychains, figurines, souvenirs etc. One of my first batch of research project students gave me a small cross-stitch keychain she made with my name on it, yet another gave me a nice hanging piece with sea-shells and a poem she wrote for me, a stone with colorful words stating 'you are the best supervisor', a huge wooden plaque with my name are amongst some of the treasured items. I kept all these in my office as a means of remembering my dear students that have taught me so much on selfless, patience and kindness. My pride lies in seeing them excel not only academically but also in achieving valuable lessons in life that will equip them for life's journey. To all my students both past and present, thanks for your blessings and friendships.

Cheers to a new chapter in my life - bloggerhood...

Wow, didnt know that creating a blog is this easy. It is 10:03pm, I am suppose to start reviewing the first of 7 student's final year project theses, but decided that I needed some distraction. I hope creating this blog is a good distraction, beside those that I get from my 7 year old adorable, mischeavous and hilarous daughter. She is indeed the greatest blessings in my life and I suppose trying to get distracted and eventually creating this blog is another blessing in life...