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Earthly possesions! Nothing to mourn. Luckily, we are safe, healthy, and have all of the memories locked up in our minds/memories.

Ha! At my age the memories are very misty. !LOL

It is not just age. When I mark these papers my own memories start to fade. It feels like I am losing brain mass due to the bad quality!

Really an impossible job that you do under the stringent circumstances. Somebody needs to investigate that university for malpractices. But I think that you said that you will not mark them anymore, and if you do, it can save your brain mass. !LOLZ

Haha for sure. It just gets worse and worse. I should actually record some of the bad writing and frame it. It is really bad and I cannot fathom how some people have such disrespect for themselves to even submit things like that. But it really helps with having a good laugh though.

In a way, I feel sorry for them, especially the ones that tried their best, and are waiting for top marks. Our country's education system is not up to scratch, and it looks like it will not improve soon, especially now that they are thinking about laying some teachers off. I mean, how can one teacher handle a classroom filled by 60 pupils? Sheer madness.

That is madness. (But UNISA with their 5000 students per lecturer is just as mad.) Education really became a commodity, it is a number game and not about education per se. So sad. And yes, there are probably a couple that really tried their best, but I still need to find them. From papers looking exactly the same (students giving in the same papers) to almost papers almost entirely written by AI, to papers being so sloppy and full of errors that you cannot read them, I am not so sure that there will be good papers...