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...called the Faculty of Arts and Sciences exam office to ask about delaying their test times. Five law students, however, asked that their Monday exams be rescheduled, according to the Law School registrar's office. The exams were deferred until yesterday...
...Associate Dean Joseph J. McCarthy said each degree program would work out individual arrangements with students who had term-end projects due earlier this week. Affected students could reschedule a Monday in-class microeconomics exam, but McCarthy said he had not heard of other problems...
This sort of weather has the tendency to bring out the worst in people. Especially for people who have to drive to work--like exam proctors--snow and ice are leading causes of cantankerousness and general irritability. For most television news stations, though, snowstorms are great: They're the perfect chance to try out new disaster-themed jingles. Too bad for me I'm at a newspaper. The Boston Herald won a Pulitzer Prize for photography for its coverage of the famous blizzard of 1978, but I don't know how to take pictures...
What's worse, Harvard is rumored to have never had a snow day, and its first certainly won't be during an exam period. I've always admired the facilities maintenance people who are out at 4 a.m. clearing the pathways around campus. Still, exams and snow can be a lethal combination for those with short tempers, I've been told. I'm glad I didn't have an exam yesterday...
...sometimes worry that the academic exercise of taking exams has slowly destroyed my ability to think in anything but hastily constructed, poorly connected paragraphs. There is a solid body of evidence from my TFs in a wide range of disciplines that this is, in fact, the case. I have never quite understood what, if any, useful intellectual purpose there is to exams. Most professors seem to give them out of pure laziness and pedagogical inertia rather than actually to test students' knowledge of the course material in any meaningful way. In the process, they force us to master a particular...