I’m reaching the end of the semester. Indeed, tomorrow is the last day of class and then final exams are next week. At this point all the enthusiasm and excitement has been slowly beaten out of me by 60 teenagers who do nothing but stare blankly at me and whine about how many pages I require them to write. (Because apparently having to write 4 WHOLE PAGES is a fate worst than death). As revenge I’m going to share with you some of my favorite typing mistakes of the semester.

Example #1:
“In Shakespheres play “Othello” the theme of jealousy is throughout.”

Okay, besides the fact that she obviously ended the sentence with a preposition – SHAKESPHERES? As in a “sphere”? Seriously, you’ve reached your first year of college and you haven’t figured out how to spell Shakespeare? Really?

Example #2:
“Iago is a cleaver character and it is his cleaver way of thinking that causes Othello’s downfall”.

I’m thinking he meant clever here. Just a guess, but I’m not terribly aware of a lot of “large knife” thinking. Perhaps it is tied to Kung Fu. Not sure.

Example #3:
” Sir Gawain presents himself as a roll model for courtly love.”

When you say “roll model” do you mean like the perfect hot cross bun? Or are you thinking of something more savory like a buttered wheat dinner roll? Just curious.

Example #4:
“It is the hostel environment that the protagonist must live in that in turn makes him hostel”

I didn’t realize that living with other young people in some sort of cheap housing can actually make a person become cheap housing. OOOHHH, HOSTILE — yeah, I get it.

Please take comfort in the fact that I don’t actually say these things to the students. Okay, sometimes I can’t resist and I do point out their inability to proof read by mocking them publicly but it doesn’t happen often.