speaking of that one remaining exam
i have recently realized how awful it is going to be. this prof gives notoriously tough exams and he had given us some ideas of what it would be, but i looked online yesterday and he has actually posted the real specifications and instructions for the exam.
it will consist of 20 short answer and 2 essays. in 3 hours. nothing he had said in class made it sound like it was going to be that awful. plus, i don't think i had ever stopped to think about it yet and to realize just how awful this would be.
i have two primary problems with this.
(1) well this is just too damned much to do in 3 hours. i think this is generally true, but particularly so for me. as i have mentioned before, generally, during an exam, i try to teach myself the relevant law. well with this many questions, 3 hours will not give me any time to rifle thru my notes and thru the Copyright Act to try to figure anything out. i had an exam that also had short answers last week and that class was notoriously easy and i still had to spend like 10 minutes with each question, flipping thru the rule book to find things and read them 8 times before committing to a "yes" or "no" answer. so basically, i'm screwed.
(2) i will have no time to twirl my hair. much like the LLMs need an extra 20 minutes of testing time per hour of test, i need approximately 3 minutes of hair twirling time for every 15 minutes of exam. this is a highly scientific formula i have worked out. the only way i can think of to get around this is for me to shave my head before the exam. but i figure that then i would just wind up petting my own head for an equivalent period of time, if not more b/c of the novelty of it. plus, it is probably not good to start work in a week with a shaved head.
there is disaster written all over this.
it will consist of 20 short answer and 2 essays. in 3 hours. nothing he had said in class made it sound like it was going to be that awful. plus, i don't think i had ever stopped to think about it yet and to realize just how awful this would be.
i have two primary problems with this.
(1) well this is just too damned much to do in 3 hours. i think this is generally true, but particularly so for me. as i have mentioned before, generally, during an exam, i try to teach myself the relevant law. well with this many questions, 3 hours will not give me any time to rifle thru my notes and thru the Copyright Act to try to figure anything out. i had an exam that also had short answers last week and that class was notoriously easy and i still had to spend like 10 minutes with each question, flipping thru the rule book to find things and read them 8 times before committing to a "yes" or "no" answer. so basically, i'm screwed.
(2) i will have no time to twirl my hair. much like the LLMs need an extra 20 minutes of testing time per hour of test, i need approximately 3 minutes of hair twirling time for every 15 minutes of exam. this is a highly scientific formula i have worked out. the only way i can think of to get around this is for me to shave my head before the exam. but i figure that then i would just wind up petting my own head for an equivalent period of time, if not more b/c of the novelty of it. plus, it is probably not good to start work in a week with a shaved head.
there is disaster written all over this.
posted by laura at 2:08 PM
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