<p>I put in a few jokes in my essays. haha</p>
<p>I put a few very silly historical (and relevant!) anecdotes in my gov exam… I had a lot of extra time and I totally used “Why so serious?” in one and drew [relevant] pictures. lol.</p>
<p>I did this on my Gov test but I doubt they’d see since I crossed out lots of stuff.
Hate pens lol.</p>
<p>I’ll add my $.02 to a previous post from a history prof. </p>
<p>As an Eng Lit reader, I can testify that each essay gets one full reading by one person. If it’s early in the week, the table leader reads six random essays of every 25 from each table member (8 readers/table). We’ve got one million essays to be read by 1100 people. </p>
<p>Personally, I think it’s humorous when someone puts in This is Sparta, Why So Serious?, or a similar joke. As long as it’s crossed through, I do not let it detract from the score. Last year, I kept a tally of “This is Sparta” comments and out of the 700+ essays that I read, I saw only 25-30 cases of the strikethrough. On the third day of this year’s reading, having read nearly 300 essays, I’ve had only four instances of “Why So Serious?” I don’t think this year’s joke is as popular as last year’s installment.</p>
<p>Well, I know that last year on my Euro exam I doodled some armadillos and got a 5. So… who knows. :)</p>