Posted on 12/21/2017 11:22:27 PM PST by iowamark
The sleepless nights, the changing classrooms, and those dang blue books. Sorry to remind everyone of the worst part of going to college (taking final exams), but current and former students might find a newly viral video a little too relatable. On Friday, Twitter user Ann Mark posted a video of her walking in the University of Texas campus area and describing her first final exam. Mark tells viewers that she showed up to her exam room without a “blue book,” a thin journal of notebook paper used primarily for essays. After acquiring two blue books, she admits she hasn’t been to class in nearly a month and realized she was in the wrong test room. After thinking she found the correct room, she’s told her exam is in another building that shares the same name as one of the auditoriums on campus. She managed to make it to her exam for World Cinema History and wrote an essay about the film “Napoleon Dynamite.”
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The sad thing is she is wasting time taking a bs class like this writing about Napoleon Dynamite Been there bought the t-shirt and understand. Our education system has become an overpriced joke.
That was cute. Yeah, UT is MASSIVE, poor girl. Well, at least now she’ll know better for next semester!
I agree. We need to find a way to defund these stupid classes and funnel students into the sciences or, at least, professions that stand a chance of actually making money. Maybe cut funding altogether or earmark funding for scholarships, grants, loans, whatever, purely for students who meet minimum B-grade averages and who are pursuing degrees that will actually bring a return.
People can also get certified for computers/networks without going to college at all. I believe you just pay a rather large fee (1.5K?) and take the test. We need more of this. Less social justice classes and people spending 4 years to achieve nothing.
Good Lord...write an essay about a movie. How about physics, calculus, differential equations, heat transfer, thermodynamics, statics, organic chemistry. No sleep, no latitude for late work. You miss a single class and you are so far behind you will never catch up. What a weak pussycat baby. I can’t believe she wrote this crap. She isn’t mature enough for college.
Not going to the class for a month our first semester of college could do that to you.
I can’t relate to missing a month of coursework, even for something called World Cinema History.
Sounds like nightmares that I still have 30+ years later. Years ago my old man said “Get used to them - I still have them too!”
Final exam for post-graduate degree.
It was a *pass or fail* exam, which thinking about it now, still seems awfully unfair.
I recall that you could take any section of the entire exam; and any correct answers were to your credit; any wrong answers were not dilatory.
Day of the scheduled exam, and a hurricane hits. Radio says the exams will not be postponed. I mean, a real weather event. Vividly recall driving to the exam, with trees falling around me on the road. Good times.
Then the wait for days, for the letter to come in the mail. Pass or fail. Very succinct. Very unnerving.
I recall, senior year in undergrad school taking the GREs.
Went in with my roommate. I should note that she was one of these naturally bright people. She studied, even if she didn’t have to; 4.0 all the way. Dean’s List.
IIRC, we were told to answer as many questions as we could, in as many areas as we felt comfortable; just make sure the answers were correct. Don’t guess.
Finished my areas early and went on to other sections. I remember as if it was yesterday, my whole life flashing before me. So I finish filling my blue-book and twiddle and hem and haw; check my work. Glance over to my roommate...she is filling her third blue-book.
Geez. Give the blue-book to the proctor; I leave the exam room after the greatest test for underarm deodorant ever made. My roommate is still writing feverishly.
I’m thinking, there is no God.
I can’t relate to her because she is a total idiot.
Well .... so.... how did you do?
A fair number did it though - they showed up only on exam day
(This was back in the 1980’s).
Don’t remember my GRE scores...but they must have been OK/passable. I got accepted into the Peace Corps and eventually into grad school.
All in all, things worked out just fine. :)
Your post made me laugh out loud. Then I remembered a law school exam I took on criminal law and shuddered. Good times? Not so much.
The 80s were strange on campus. Mind you in grad school we all had jobs. Many had young families, mortgages, ya da.
The year I got the diploma, my family took it as a time of great pride. Everyone was invited. Grandmas, great-grandpas, all the close relatives.
This was at a *small ivy*; same school as Tucker Carlson and Jessie Waters. That year, was the first year that the school did away with its cap and gown requirement. F
The formal, traditional dress was optional. Most of the undergrads decided that it would be cool to wear bowling shirts.
And that is what they did. Bowling shirts. Deep down, I was pretty miffed that this was on display, in front of my very straight-laced fam in attendance.
So the grad students were at the end-o-the-line of recipients. We stood together, berating the younger grads. many of the *liberated* undergrad wimmen also, decided to be naked under their caps & gowns. When they walked across the stage, you could see their bare silhouettes in the setting sun. Big whoops and cat-calls from the crowd.
It was pretty much a circus. I’m sure the staid professors were mortified.
Good times.
Well, somehow we survived. :)
What do they say...*whatever doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger*?
God help us, what kind of school calls itself a “small ivy”?
(I see online yours is Trinity in Hartford?)
Just why are we supposed to feel sorry for her?? Not prepared.
Hadn't attended class in a month.
The real world has very little sympathy for laziness or stupidity.
I bet her parents wouldn't be thrilled to know she'd missed this much class time.
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