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...shows. No professor ever took so much delight in writing (no, inscribing) the time on the 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...
...sheer animal ecstasy, they take in shattering our concentration as we scribble out the final brilliant conclusions of our essays to tell us that "There are TEN MINUTES remaining in this examination. For the remainder of the ten minutes that remain while the exam remains, no one may leave the room until the remaining ten minutes that remain while the exam remains, no one may leave the room until the remaining ten minutes of the examination no longer remain in the remainder of the ten minutes remaining...
...course, once the exam is over, we are far too tired to protest or even remember these people who seem to venture down from the outer reaches of the solar system in order to administer our finals. Yet every year, they return, renewing our faith that there is indeed life after college and that people exist in the universe who do not care about exams...
Your Post-Exam Horoscope...
...favorably upon you. You are freed from a great labor today. You have finally passed the QRR as a sophomore. You will rejoice. Your roommates will stop being condescending. You can multiply fractions. Calculators are no longer enigmatic devices used to write "Boob" (8008). The lies about your "stats" exam can stop...