Final Exams Week
Published on Dec 11, 2006 at 2:49 pm.
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Filed under college teaching.
Well, the semester is coming to an end. This week we are giving final exams. Final grades are due in to the registrar by Friday. So, you know that it is final exams week when
1)Â You come to campus and see the parking lots that have been half empty since October filled completely up.
2)Â There aren’t any faculty parking spaces because students are all parked in them.
3)Â You have 10 emails from students asking when the final is going to be (they couldn’t bother coming to class the last class period, checking the final exam schedule on the internet, or looking in the campus paper).
4) The administrators decide to schedule major building maintenance, complete with jackhammers, banging, clanging, and so forth next to the classrooms. Oh, and they block the primary fire exit from the chemistry lab wing of the building. They couldn’t schedule this for next week?
5)Â The testing center where the distance learning students take their final exams is closed the first two days of this week to move to a new location.
6)Â Students that I have not seen since October come by my office wanting to know what they can do to pass the course.
7)Â They schedule a faculty meeting at a time that I am supposed to be giving a final.
8) They schedule the faculty appreciation lunchean when I am giving a final. (Hey, y’all. In case any administrators read this, I often am involved in giving final exams during final exams week, for some reason, so that sort of cramps my ability to go do all the other things scheduled this week.)
9) The system taht faculty use to report grades to the Registrar is scheduled to be down for maintenance. (That hasn’t happened yet this semester, but it has before.)
So, did I leave anything out?
-Astroprof
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Seeking Solace on December 12, 2006 at 8:54 am: 1
How about students who forget to bring a calculator to a physics final! I still love the story about the slide rule!!!
Astroprof on December 12, 2006 at 10:52 am: 2
Ah, yes. Also, one semester I has two students fail to put their names on their final exams!