Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Excuses, excuses

From time to time, we have a scheduling mishap within the vet school.

There was last semester's pharmacology final, which didn't get scheduled correctly so we didn't have a classroom reserved.

There are conflicts between club meetings, free lunches, and other extracurricular events.

Occasionally, we have our classes switched or make up a missed hour on a different day due to our professors' busy schedules.

Today, we all arrived at 8 am for Surgery class. So did our Surgery professor (who happened to be the director of the VTH, who should definitely set a good example and arrive on time).

We took our usual 10 minute break after that class and came back at 9 am for Clin Sci.

Ten minutes later, we were still without an instructor.

Today's professor has taught us on occasion previously in the curriculum, but we haven't had him yet this semester. He is somewhat renowned for being scatterbrained.

Fortunately, he also works a lot with students on research and other projects, so several members of our class tried to get a hold of him.

Soon, one of my classmates headed up the front of the room and announced that we would have the next 45 minutes free because there was a scheduling conflict and Dr. So-and-So would not be able to make it. We would have our second hour of Clin Sci as scheduled at 10 am, led by the course coordinator who was scheduled to lecture at 1 pm anyway.

The reason for Dr. So-and-So's absence?

He is in Italy.

(How do you mix that up???)

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