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...that many student complaints," O'Connell says. "We do get joking complaints, that one [exam proctor] was a Nazi and one was a baseball coach, but that was mostly in fun I think...
Other difficulties, from construction noise to cramped desks, are also mentioned by students as classic exam distractions, but none with great frequency. Even rarer are incidents of actual cheating...
...only issue I had was a Spanish exam where eight TFs came in and started chatting in Espagnol," says exam proctor Dorothea S. Piranian...
Although Throntfeldt postulates that "it seems like it would be pretty easy to cheat on an exam," O'Connell, who has been conduct- ing exams for about 12 years, says she's seenvery few cases...
While most students may diligently go abouttheir business as proctors, who are recruited froma pool of former educators and Harvard employees,silently observe, there is one exam proctor inparticular who has made a name for himself...