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Familiar Nightmare, New Twist
Dec. 7th, 2006 10:44 amExam week started today at Mohawk College - I had one to write today, one to write tomorrow morning, and one Monday morning. So, I did a little bit of studying last night for my Electricity class, which was the exam we were writing this morning, going over things like Voltage divider, Kirchoff's Law, that sort of thing.
I'm there about half an hour early, so some of my classmates and I are chatting, when one guy asks the most curious question. "Hey, Alec, what's the quadratic formula again?" I kinda think, 'why's he wanna know this', but answer him anyway. (For the record, it's negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac, all divided by 2a), and add, "Not that it's gonna come up today, since we don't write math until Monday." He just kinda looks at me, and says, "We're writing Todd's (our Electricity prof) on Monday - math is today." He was not joking.
Needless to say, I found this tidbit of information mildly alarming, but overall I'm not worried, since I've been having absolutely no problems with this class. I mean, I could probably write the math exam in my sleep.
Little did I know how right I was.
So, five minutes before the exam start, we all shuffle in, fish out our Student IDs, write our names on our papers, stuff like that. The prof says that once the clock on the wall changes to 8:00, we may begin, once it reaches 10:00, exam is over. So I'm just kind of staring at the clock, and (no doubt due to the milk in the iced capp I had with breakfast) start daydreaming - I think I was going stream of consciousness about the Super Mario Brothers, or D&D. (Knowing me, possibly both.)
After a pleasant amount of not thinking, I kind of shake myself back to full consciousness. Clock reads 8:27. That's not good. Seriously alarmed now, I flip open to the first page - only to find that, with the exception of one question that required a little bit of thought, my exam has been completed. So I do the one question, check over all the other questions to make sure they were done right (they were). Look up at the clock. 8:44. I shrug, hand the paper in.
I'm going back to bed now.
I'm there about half an hour early, so some of my classmates and I are chatting, when one guy asks the most curious question. "Hey, Alec, what's the quadratic formula again?" I kinda think, 'why's he wanna know this', but answer him anyway. (For the record, it's negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac, all divided by 2a), and add, "Not that it's gonna come up today, since we don't write math until Monday." He just kinda looks at me, and says, "We're writing Todd's (our Electricity prof) on Monday - math is today." He was not joking.
Needless to say, I found this tidbit of information mildly alarming, but overall I'm not worried, since I've been having absolutely no problems with this class. I mean, I could probably write the math exam in my sleep.
Little did I know how right I was.
So, five minutes before the exam start, we all shuffle in, fish out our Student IDs, write our names on our papers, stuff like that. The prof says that once the clock on the wall changes to 8:00, we may begin, once it reaches 10:00, exam is over. So I'm just kind of staring at the clock, and (no doubt due to the milk in the iced capp I had with breakfast) start daydreaming - I think I was going stream of consciousness about the Super Mario Brothers, or D&D. (Knowing me, possibly both.)
After a pleasant amount of not thinking, I kind of shake myself back to full consciousness. Clock reads 8:27. That's not good. Seriously alarmed now, I flip open to the first page - only to find that, with the exception of one question that required a little bit of thought, my exam has been completed. So I do the one question, check over all the other questions to make sure they were done right (they were). Look up at the clock. 8:44. I shrug, hand the paper in.
I'm going back to bed now.
