(no subject)
Jun. 13th, 2007 11:29 am*gets back from Chaucer final, eyes flist, and sighs*
Oh, come on, guys. Don't you think you're all being a little alarmist?
I mean, yeah, an awful lot of people were kind of glassy-eyed and shambling this morning, but I am 99% sure that's just due to the wacky fun of early morning finals. 99.5%, even. - okay maybe just 98.5%, the point is? Almost positive that it's totally normal.
And while it really was a shame what happened to my nice Chaucer professor, let's face it, if you assign a two-essay final exam on top of a final essay, and have it include so much writing that the hands of no less than sixteen poor students fall off over the course of the test (seriously! I figure I'm lucky to have mine still attached), you kind of have to anticipate that people might be irritated. Stress drives people to do all kinds of crazy things.

Oh, come on, guys. Don't you think you're all being a little alarmist?
I mean, yeah, an awful lot of people were kind of glassy-eyed and shambling this morning, but I am 99% sure that's just due to the wacky fun of early morning finals. 99.5%, even. - okay maybe just 98.5%, the point is? Almost positive that it's totally normal.
And while it really was a shame what happened to my nice Chaucer professor, let's face it, if you assign a two-essay final exam on top of a final essay, and have it include so much writing that the hands of no less than sixteen poor students fall off over the course of the test (seriously! I figure I'm lucky to have mine still attached), you kind of have to anticipate that people might be irritated. Stress drives people to do all kinds of crazy things.
