Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Academic highlight of the day

Today's vet-school-finals-week highlight involved arriving to school at 8:50 am for our 9:10 pharmacology final, and discovering that an equally large class of ecology undergraduate students was preparing to take their final... in the same room as us.

A few minutes later, our professor arrived, was informed of the dilemma, and went off to the pathology office to get things sorted out. (Poor guy. He is shy and seems not to like conflict.) He came back and told us that the problem wasn't that the room was double-booked. The problem was that somebody in the vet school forgot to book the room for our final. Whoops.

We ushered the undergrads into the classroom, while 140 of us stood in the lobby and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, at about 9:09 and 45 seconds, the ecology professor showed up with his class's exams. Bummer! No room for us in the classroom, after all. (Will we have to find a stable in which to take our exam??)

So, being the professional, resourceful, and flexible vet students that we are, we each grabbed a copy of the exam and hunkered down in the hallways, lobby, computer lab, conference room, empty classrooms, etc. And took our exam. I personally found it most comfortable to lie on the carpeted floor in the building's lobby. It was certainly a unique testing environment.

We got an email later in the day from the assistant dean, who apologized for the lack of a room and commended us on our professionalism and good behavior in adapting to the "stress of having to find a place to take a final, in addition to the stress of the exam itself." Apparently that means we will all do great when we get to clinis, at least according to him!

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