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Undergraduates blew off pre-exam steam with the traditional midnight screams this past Sunday night. But despite the late night camaraderie in the Yard and several houses, the mood has for the most part been, well, rather somber this past week...
...have an exam on Friday, then two on Wednesday and one on Thursday," said Muneer I. Ahmad '93, who was studying in the Adams House library. "It's been distracting because they're late, so I've just been trying to keep motivated for this week, because next week will be the real crunch...
...wrote a paper over break, during reading period I wrote another paper, and did thesis work and now I'm finally studying for exams," he continued. "I'm just trying to fill my head with as many facts, figures, and anecdotes as possible--which I'll forget five minutes after the exam...
...HAVE, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the bad guys--rather than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
ARTFUL EQUIVOCATIONS are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then your lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx or Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...