I spent mine grading papers. Yes, the entire weekend was spent grading undergraduate homework assignments. While I am appreciative to my department for employing me as a teaching assistant so that I can complete my education without going into even more debt, I really hate grading papers. I especially hate it when students don't seem to have grasped some basic concepts they should have gotten in grade school, like:
1) Put your name on your paper.
2) Staple your pages together. Don't just bend the corners and figure it will be okay.
3) Use a pencil and an eraser. If you must use pen, work out the problems on another sheet of paper first and then write them again. It is really difficult to figure out which of your scribbles are the answer and which of your scribbles are you attempting to remove a mistake.
4) Put the problems on the paper in the order of the assignment. I try to be a very fair grader. That means I grade one problem at a time on all homeworks, so that I have fresh in my mind how many points I took off for what. If I get to your homework and don't find problem number X after problem number X-1, I assume you have not done problem number X and give you a 0 for that one. Imagine my surprise when I think I am grading problem X+Y and find your solution to problem X. By this time, I have begun to forget my point deduction scheme for X and am now annoyed with you. Let's just say you might get graded a little harsher on X than the others did.
5) If the instructor says that your program must compile on a particular platform, say the computers in our department Linux lab, then make sure that it does. Don't turn in code you wrote on Windows/Unix/Mac and expect it to compile and run. It's not my job to fix your code; I end up doing it anyway, because if I don't then you complain to the instructor, who doesn't want to hear your whining, who asks me to regrade it, ...
6) Please write neatly.
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