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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
I had it backwards - I always stayed up with the data throughout the days/weeks/months so all I had to do was brush up for finals: getting a 4.0 GPA ain’t that tough for folks that actually want an education....
Cha-ching. Endowments.
*The term Little Ivy derives from these schools’ small student bodies, standards of academic excellence, associated historic social prestige, and highly selective admissions comparable to the Ivy League.*
Amherst College
Bates College
Bowdoin College
Bucknell University
Colgate University
Connecticut College
Colby College
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Lafayette College
Middlebury College
Swarthmore College
Trinity College
Tufts University
Union College
Vassar College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Ha ha.
Good marketing, apparently.
Nut Amherst and Williams would be the only two in there close to lesser Ivy standards. Wesleyan probably next.
I can't relate...Gonzaga's campus is about 150 acres, and most of my classes were a two minute walk from my dorm. It was awesome.
When I was there, we had about 2000 undergrads.
Vassar is one of the “Seven Sisters” isn’t it? Ivy for girls.
Ah, but she can vote. Think about it. Are you like very afraid now?
I was ready to rip on this stupid girl until I remembered the time I showed up an hour late for an anatomy final. It was like a nightmare come true as I got there just as most students were leaving. I was paniced and went up and told the Professor what happened. He said missing the final was ordinarily an automatic zero but he had a half hour to spare and told me I could take the normally hour long exam during that time or fail. It was one of the hardest courses I had ever taken in college, but I took the test and somehow managed to pass. Thank you Professor Maderson.
No. I can't. I was paying my own way, and made damned sure I knew when and where every final was to be taken, and what I had to have for the final.
I took far more care than my psychology professor, who didn't even care to remember he had to give a final, and showed up 90 minutes late to the 3-hour test.
When I was in law school, before an exam, the prof told us not to worry about what other people were doing, just write your exam.
Then he told the story about when he was taking a blue book when he was in law school. The person next to him kept going up to the front of the room, where the blank blue books were stacked up. Book after book. My prof was getting worried; maybe he didn’t know as much as he thought he did. He was barely filling one blue book.
Turned out the guy next to him had a vision problem and needed to write on 2 lines instead of the usual 1 line, so of course he was filling up the blue books.
Vassar has been coed since the 70s/80s.
Re the Little Ivys, without looking them all up, most of these schools are in former mill towns and were endowed or heavily supported by the mill owners. This is in contrast to the typical students who were probably not mill worker families.
This would make for in interesting historical sociological dissertation.
This story is more sad than anything else.
She was unprepared, as if she did not take it seriously.
Then she wrote an essay on Napoleon Dynamite. Which writ large is a national; tragedy.
America is beginning to suck; People like this fool are the reason why.
I'm not going to argue the point.
'Tis the Season to be jolly.
Merry Christmas and Happy to you and yours. :)
Dunno.
Mostly Smith and Yale for this family. I don’t go further than that about knowing about schools. :)
Never too many images from you on this site, Daffy—keep them coming.
And Merry Christmas!
I didn’t know anything about Gonzaga’s size, but the famed men’s basketball program, on the other hand...nice!
I went to Baylor, which was a decent size; the enrollment was probably about one fifth the size of UT’s at the time (maybe still, I don’t know). Big enough, but not insanely overwhelming.
Would love for Baylor to arrange a home and home series with the Zags.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.