/lit/ - Literature

>>12206948

Nope they are not. I have been grading students for more than 15 years now and I can tell you this: most of you are the epitome of mediocrity. I am not by all means a genius, but I have met a couple and I can recognize them when I see them,and I am thankful everyday to whatever extra-mundane entity is out there to make the existence of exceptional people possible, for this means that at least some of us are not complete and utter waste.
And here is the bitter truth, seen from above when you mark 20 or more essays from the same class. 14 of them will follow a very similar train of thought, with problems in structure and articulation. 4 of them will do the same, but 2 will be so badly articulated you'll have to fail them, and 2 slightly better than the rest, so you'll have to give them a 70. If you are lucky, but this happens more or less once every 6/7 batches of shit to mark, 1 of them will be bad in an entertaining way, so at least you'll be laughing while making cyborg work, and 1 of them will be surprisingly good. Let me be clear: by surprisingly I mean that he will be able to follow the train of thought of others with such clarity and in such a structured way that he'll reach a 75 for having done good what everyone else did mediocrely.
But I assure you, from the perspective of the grader most of the time there is no discernible talent, not anywhere to be seen. And the eerie thing is that you guys walk around wearing weird stuff, trying to be original in any way, while put in front of a simple question to answer in 3000 words or less you are incapable for the life of god of producing an original thought. Seriously, from a lecturer's perspective you look like an army of clones. When I cannot see your faces, but only your thoughts, you are less recognizable than a 4chan anonymous post for me.
My only hope is that in the loneliness of your soul you harvest something special to you which makes you different from others, because I swear, it makes me utterly desperate when I see how similarly you all think and how incapable you are of producing anything original and worthwhile.