Stupiest Academic Thing Ever
So I left my micro midterm wanting to just start screaming expletives. Such bullshit.
So we arrive, and we start doing the midterm. I'm feeling pretty stressed about it because I don't feel properly prepared. And it's easy. I mean really easy. A certain amount of terror is setting in, because I'm really nervous at math-only questions because a simple algebraic mistake can cost you almost everything. I know it's not exactly that way, the fear is not rational, the fear is the problem.
Well, I don't get to find out because the fire alarm goes off. No one's quite sure what to do because the TA isn't telling us to do anything. Suddenly someone suggests just continuing doing the exam and the TA half-heartedly agrees. I say that that's the most rediculous thing I've ever heard, and everyone leaves (including the TA, thankfully). So I figure we'll just do it later. That sucks, but... you know, that's life.
So now we've been out of the test for 10-20 minutes, I don't know exactly. And the TA walks up to us and says that we're going to go to Buchanan Tower and finish the midterm. I mention again how rediculous that is because we all have class at 2 (the midterm started at 1pm, it's now about 1:30). She replies by saying that the alarm went off at 1:15, and since it's only a 45min test, we'll go until 2:00pm.
So we get there, and she starts handing out people's tests. The people who get their tests first just start writing again, there isn't even a pretense of equal time. Plus, we're not even in a classroom, we're in the ECON lounge, some people are writing their test on their knees (I am not joking). My test is like, the second from the bottom. By this point my friend Garrett (his was near the top) has probably finished an entire question and I don't even have a place to sit yet.
The agony continues (me and Yan are squished on a couch that is covered in old textbooks, I don't have enough table space to fit my test on it completely, some of it is on the ground, etc, etc, I could go on) and the test finishes.
This has been the biggest joke of my entire Undergraduate experience. If this gets worth anything on my grade, I will freak.