Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another good professor/exam question story--possibly an urban myth--that I heard. A group of students went to see a game against an archrival. Their team won, they decided to stick around and drink, and missed the scheduled test the next morning as they slept off their hangovers. Upon returning, they approached their chemistry teacher, told him that they had missed the test because their car had gotten a flat tire, and they had to stay over in order to get the tire fixed. The professor was sympathetic, and offered a make up exam the following day at 3:00 pm. The students arrived, and were placed in four separate classrooms, at which time they were given the following exam paper: 1. What is the atomic number of carbon? (5 points) 2. Which tire? (95 points) On a related note, I can tell those of you who have read "Bartleby the Scrivener," (an earlier thread) that a friend of mine once turned in a paper that read only, "I would prefer not to," in response to the professor's question. He did NOT receive an A. The professor, a legendary one at my college who recently retired, pulled him aside and said, "This is really good, but if I give it an A and word gets out, I'll get a hundred of these next semester." He gave my friend another week to prepare an alternate version. Not an urban myth--I saw him turn in the paper myself. ;-) Regards, Michael Gerard geeman1066@earthlink.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html