Poker Face

Dear Teacher,

You aren't fooling me. The semester is over in a week. You don't have time to grade every outrageously time-consuming assignment you've inflicted on us with a fine-toothed comb. I'm calling your bluff, and I'm making my margins 1.2 inches on all sides. And I'm not single-spacing my paper, I'm 1.3-spacing it. And I'm putting 3 spaces after each comma and period, and I'm printing it off without re-reading it.

And I'm betting I'll still get an A, because you won't have time to read through the whole thing. And besides that, you have been grading everyone really harshly the semester, and we both know you don't want to fail everyone.

Love,
One of your more supportive students