Monday, August 22, 2011

A Quick Note on Coercion

We have an anatomy "worksheet" (apparently he's not allowed to call them quizzes because the other professors complained he gave to many and students were not paying attention in their classes) on Wednesday. It covers 43 pages of an anatomy Question and Answer booklet or roughly 77 pages in the textbook (if it doesn't sound like much, trust me it is!). All of the school clubs are starting to have their first meeting of the semester between last week and this week (and seriously, who wouldn't want to join them all? Emergency and critical care, exotics and wildlife, AAHA, SAAVMA, etc.) but knowing that I have this "worksheet" on Wednesday, I decided that Tuesday evening was going to be spent solely studying. But then they sent out an email saying there will be food. And not only will there be food, it will be pizza! Now who could pass that up?! So what it now means is that after our mandatory library tour after class tomorrow, I will put my newly acquired library skills to the test and actually study there so that I can get pizza a little bit later on.

Moral of the story: students like food. Free food is even better. Make it something they really like and you are guaranteed their presence!

Update: Turns out all of the meetings this week have pizza at them. How many times will I eat pizza this week? Hmm...

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