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This year, Dartboard will celebrate the long intersession while skiing in Vermont, rowing in North Carolina or perhaps getting a tan on the sands of Panama Beach. Or, perhaps more likely, Dartboard will discover a new meaning of the word "chillin"' while sitting in an underheated dorm working on a thesis or hunting down a summer job. No matter how it gets spent, though, nothing could be more welcome after ten days of exams than seven days of real vacation...
...next year, Dartboard will barely have the time to hiccup after our exams end. Do the math: seven days this year, two days next year. Eloquently put, it sucks--and we've seen it before. Intersession 2000 will actually be a genetically and administrationally engineered clone of the two-day wonder that was Intersession 1998. Even at a four-year college, institutional memory isn't that short...
...several semesters now, we've heard nary a mew from the administration about holding exams before winter break and starting school a little earlier. Dartboard loudly roars for this change--or else we say, give us a week every year...
During reading period, which Dartboard largely spent reading women's magazines (Page 118: "How to Trim Those Ugly Thighs"; Page 119: "Quiz: Do You Have Low Self-Esteem?"), and during exam period itself, which Dartboard is largely spending removing the plastic wrap from textbooks for tomorrow's exams, it's easy to forget the real determining factor in every-one's exam experience...
...board every five minutes in eardrum-scraping chalk marks, never noticing the clock hanging two feet above the blackboard. Or consider the relish with which they announce that "Writing after the exam is considered CHEATING, and proctors will DOCUMENT ALL INCIDENTS after the exam." (Never happened to Dartboard...