{"id":500,"date":"2006-05-04T09:18:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=500"},"modified":"2009-05-16T22:22:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T05:22:42","slug":"exam-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2006\/05\/04\/exam-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Exam stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all sufficiently removed from exams that it&#8217;s okay to point out the funny parts, eh?<\/p>\n<p>French Lit: Nothing that funny, or weird. We were waiting for exam time to roll around, when two prof-looking guys approach the glass doors. &#8220;Oh, there&#8217;s our prof,&#8221; says one of the girls. &#8220;Which one is he?&#8221; &#8220;The bald one,&#8221; I say bluntly. For some reason, this causes them to dissolve in giggles. I don&#8217;t get it. :confused:<\/p>\n<p>Nothing else of note happened in exams until we hit organic chem. Well, people&#8217;s cell phones kept going off during the French exam, and one girl had a very obnoxious ringtune. Her half-hearted attempts to stifle it were met by a &#8220;Could you turn that thing off?&#8221; from the invigilator and a brusque &#8220;use both hands&#8221; from the course coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Prof: &#8220;We haven&#8217;t put out enough exams yet. If you can&#8217;t find a paper, come to the front and we&#8217;ll make this row into an exam row.&#8221;<br \/>\n[shuffling ensues]<br \/>\nProf: &#8220;There should be one extra paper somewhere. I know how many we put out, and I know how to count. [nervous twittering from students] Unless we&#8217;ve got an extra person in here.&#8221;<br \/>\n[pause, students file into the extra row]<br \/>\nProf: &#8220;This is CHEM 204, not CHEM 123, that&#8217;s on the other side of the building.&#8221;<br \/>\n[The sound of a chair being pushed back. Some hapless first-year has stumbled into the wrong exam. We all applaud him for&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure what we applaud him for, but we do it anyway.]<\/p>\n<p>Oh man, those crazy first-year students. XD You have to wonder: Didn&#8217;t he realize everyone else was studying something different? Didn&#8217;t he realize something was weird when he didn&#8217;t recognize a single person there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all sufficiently removed from exams that it&#8217;s okay to point out the funny parts, eh? French Lit: Nothing that funny, or weird. We were waiting for exam time to roll around, when two prof-looking guys approach the glass doors. &#8220;Oh, there&#8217;s our prof,&#8221; says one of the girls. &#8220;Which one is he?&#8221; &#8220;The bald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[118,33],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotidian","tag-exams","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}