Word: exam
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...story: During exam period last June, a student became so worried about an upcoming final that he asked his roommate to smash his finger with a hammer. The roommate obliged, with some precautions taken for his friend's safety and comfort, and the distraught student suffered his way into an airtight medical excuse...
...Harvard College you don't have to go to that length to get out of an exam," says Dr. Paul Walters. Indeed you don't. You can generally bail out by walking into the UHS clinic and pleading sickness; the doctors are generally professional enough (or unprofessional enough) not to press...
...there a significant increase in the number of students who seek psychological counselling at UHS during reading and exam periods...
...stretched out on one of those green tables, the precious life-fluid running from my vein to a bag out of my sight. Lying on my back. I could view the Mem Hall stained glass windows in all their exquisite detail, a treat that students gazing down at blue exam books rarely enjoy. Dante, Chaucer and Blake smiled benignly upon the whole affair...
Several students argued that to place a grade on the generals in addition to comments would serve no purpose, since the diagnostic test was designed to help students think in "appropriate terms" before writing the exam...