this mother is looking for someone to basically write the paper for him

I dunno though. I could be down to teach him about feminism for two weeks in exchange for some fine dining. I consider myself highly principled, but not when it comes to food.

I used to work in a health clinic that treated adults but was located within a children’s hospital. I was making an appointment for a 32 y.o. male (regular check up type stuff, pt was in no way dev. delay or had any special needs). I’m booking the appointment with Mom by calling his home number on his profile.

Yep! Basically after one lunch with this insufferable man-child she’s hoping the ‘tutor’ will be like “Fuck it, I’d rather get paid to write the whole thing than spend another minute with this pampered douchcanoe”.

Or even just speaking to other people in the class! Even if I was too intimidated or whatever to talk to a professor (didn’t happened much, professors are fun to talk to), if it was something I could hash out with a peer I was going to. My course mates and I would frequently wrestle through homework together.

Well, the e-mail didn’t come with a completed essay attached.

Mom thinks that response isn’t pertinent to the subject matter? Someone else gets a failing grade, too.

Yeah, he’s doomed.

Also, colleges offer FREE tutoring, which I’m assuming is advertised on at least one bulletin board in each building, if not all of them (especially now that the end of the semester is near). Putting up a Craigslist ad for “help” with a paper tells me that this mother is looking for someone to basically write the…

As a former university professor, I totally agree. Plus there's probably a way for him to get a tutor through the school, although at this point it might be too late.

Um, Mom? As the wife of a university professor, I can tell you that that is what the instructor’s office hours are for, as well as the writing lab. He could get all the assistance he needs, if he just pulled his head out of his ass, and did some work. Sorry, not sorry, he’s going to fail, and he deserves to with an…

I suspect that the hasn't completed an assignment in that class all semester (or quarter?) and this is one of those do-or-die assignments. He probably has to get a 95%+ just to pass the class.

Has a helicopter mom...

Could Caity come back as a freelancer and work on a best restaurant piece along with Kara?? C’mon. It’s perfect!

Depressed Prince of Bel-Air.

The kid is just stupid, and that’s his only problem.

Plot twist: Nate is failing his classes because he spends his nights trolling local parks and killing transients with a hammer. You know, typical stuff.

The fact that his mommy is taking out the ad to help him is very telling. He'll fail, but he lives in Bel-Air, so I am sure mommy and daddy can help him land on his feet. And now I'm depressed.

In my imagined best case scenario 5 Jezzies show up to take turns schooling this guy in every sense of the word.

Oh God. Come on, LA-based Jezzies. You MUST respond to this. I am so sad that neither I nor my extensive network of academically-inclined feminists live in the area and can lunch in Bel Air on this lady’s dime while verbally lashing helping her son.