Grade Anxiety

My 80 year old prof in his raspy old-man voice was talking to us about grades today: 


"I should tell you all about the time a student approached me, and said... 'I have problems.'"
[laughter] 
"I'm serious! That's not all. Then she said 'I'm bipolar.'"
[more hesitant laughter] 
"Then she said 'I have a drinking problem.'"
[astounded at this point] 
"And finally she said 'I'm suicidal and if you fail me it'll be your fault that I kill myself.'"
[buh...?! what did you say? we asked]
[innocently] "I didn't say anything." 


Oh Dr. Hitchcock, such a sweetie...