Well this morning I showed up for my PSY 484 final, but as it got close to 10:20 there was no professor, so we waited. And then the TA came along and told us to hang in there and she'd see what was going on. After another ten minutes she came back.
"The good news is," she said. "You don't have to take a 484 final. You're grade will be caculated using your papers, presentation, and other exams."
So yeah, first time that's happened to me.
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"For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining: and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes." Taken from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran
About Me
- Renee L.
- My color if reincarnated as a crayon: Bright blue. Dream vacation destination: Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia. Alternative occupation choices: Stormchaser, zookeeper, or stunt pilot. Sports I'd like to give a whirl: Scuba diving, sky diving, and kayaking. Favorite ballroom dance: East coast swing! But the waltz and tango are also quite fun. Favorite scents: Hay, leather, horses, wood smoke, vanilla, rain, inumerable kinds of flowers, cinnamon, fall leaves... Favorite pie: Pumpkin
Storyteller at heart
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3 comments:
What was the bad news?
Given that this is a psychology final exam, I'm guessing it turned out this whole thing was a ruse to see how they would react to the sudden cancellation of the final, and that in fact their responses were carefully monitored, and grades assigned accordingly. Since the experiment was performed without informed consent of the participants, everyone involved was immediately failed for their involvement in the gross violation of basic ethics for experimentation on human subjects. Their academic careers ruined, many of the students proceeded to get drunk and/or high to escape their problems. It then turned out that this was the real experiment, to see if they would seek refuge in altered states of consciousness despite what they had learned about consciousness over the course of the semester. Alas, this too was conducted in violation of ethics principles, and thus they were all failed and kicked out of Purdue, this time for real. The cycle continued until Renee's subconscious lost track of the recursion depth and she woke up in a cold sweat. The bad news: her alarm didn't go off and she missed the final.
Paul, that was awesome. Thank you.
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