Posted by lonelygirl on May 7, 2004, at 16:10:16
I hope fallsfall doesn’t read this, because she would kick my rear…
I had a final exam today in modern separations (which, believe it or not, is even less exciting than it sounds). The exam was at 12:20 pm, so I got up at 9 am, took my sweet time taking a shower, getting dressed, having breakfast, etc. Around 10:30, I went to the computer lab to print out some notes (the exam was open notes), and when I went to the course web site to get to these notes, there was a “reminder” that the exam was Friday at *10:00*.
I managed to stay calm long enough to check the syllabus, then check the university’s final exam schedule, and both confirmed that, yep, the freaking exam was at 10:00, not 12:20 (turns out, it’s my biomaterials exam on Tuesday that’s at 12:20), so I hurried to the classroom as fast as I could.
Fortunately, the professor is very nice and let me stay late to finish. Oh, to top it all off, I left my calculator in my room, so I had to borrow the professor’s calculator! When some other people finished the exam, they went outside the classroom and started talking very loudly while waiting for some of their friends to finish. Although the door was closed, their conversation was audible inside the classroom, which they apparently didn’t realize (or, I don’t know, maybe they just didn’t care) because they were making fun of me. I just wanted to die!
I still can’t believe I did this. This is totally unlike me. I consider myself a conscientious person, and I am never late for anything unless I absolutely can’t avoid it. I am actually sort of compulsively early. And I usually check on important stuff like this -- multiple times.
So, um, I guess the moral of the story is, GO CHECK, DOUBLE-CHECK, AND TRIPLE-CHECK YOUR FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE!!! RIGHT NOW!!!
poster:lonelygirl
thread:344472
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