But I'm starting to wonder about the glove. I'm referring to the Tuesday morning final that had many of us cringing our way through the rest of the week. I'm thinking that exam was payback for our snottiness.
Some kind of alchemy must happen during the grading process. How else could I turn in a test consisting of only three problems, all of which I got wrong (and in case the professor missed it, I helpfully wrote "This is wrong!" beside my answers), and still get an A? Grade inflation alone cannot explain this, darker powers must be at work.
I should probably note that three-problem tests requiring three or more hours to complete, although we only get seventy minutes, are pretty routine in engineering school. Because they love us that much.
I'm not complaining about the A. I'll take what I can get.
147 words | May 7, 2004 08:02 PM | Ivory tower