Saturday, February 16, 2008

The tyrant teacher testing alliance theory

Ah, the great week of testing... but it's not midterms or finals. Rather it is the sudden onslaught of tests that every teacher seems to give at the same time. It first begins in high school. You'll have six or seven classes a semester and it never seems to fail that three or four weeks into it, at least three of them will decide to give a test in the same 24-hour period. The same occurs in college when your German language teacher, your anatomy teacher and even your chemistry teacher decide "Hey, y'know what? I believe it's time to pull a fast one on the student body," and with that, you all of a sudden have three exams practically back-to-back-to-back. Furthermore, despite that the fact that you now have three unrelated tests to study for, you're also expected to do well on them. For the immaculately studious, this may be possible, but let's be practical; the immaculately studious make up maybe 3% of the student body population. It seems to me that this may be a conspiracy set up by the college proffessors against the students. I would bet that they have a meeting every other week planning simply to make every test week as miserable as possible. But why would they go to such lengths to do so? for some it may be a test of perserverence. They think that by posing this challenge they can weed out who's here to learn from those who are just messing around. Then again, that's what I thought the tests were for. It would also be probable that some of these teachers had their own miserable experiences in college and wish to share the misfortune with others. For the rest, they're probably just enjoying messing with the student's head. I know I would, but then again, I'm a miserable, suffering college student having to take three exams in two days.

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