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[yubsie]

Apparently there is some sort of rule that every show I'm in must have a cross cast witch. When we did The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in high school, we got a letter from a kid in elementary school saying "Your play was good but... why was the witch a boy?" The cast list for The Wizard of Oz went up today. Despite only having something like four guys in the cast, one of them is playing the Witch of the West. Go figure. :p

I'm killing an hour in the library computer lab. The stupid frosh are writing a midterm in the Cragg every afternoon this week. In MY day we wrote our midterms on PAPER and we LIKED it. Also, Pluto was a planet. :p I really don't see why they switched to this whole electronic thing. It's not nice, kicking all the upper year students out of our HOME every afternoon for a week. This computer lab isn't HALF as nice. The computers don't have CD drives, so it's eerily quiet and more importantly, THE CRAGG IS THE ONLY LAB WITH SCIFINDER. I'm trying to do a literature review here! Scifinder is a MILLION times better than combing databases individually. Plus, the atmosphere is all wrong. There's no tables to sit and work on non-computer stuff on. More importantly, the place is full of non-chemistry students. Half the appeal of the Cragg is being able to talk to the people around you and knowing what they're talking ABOUT. In short... the Cragg is home and this is NOT. :p

Comments

[melonriel.livejournal.com]

I vote that you get together an invasion force and reconquer the lab. :-p

Also, it's stupid that there are no cd drives and that people are taking exams on computers. None of my COMPUTER Science exams are on computers. :-p (We're ignoring the fact that the IT department was special in the one class of theirs I took and had both a written exam and a "practical" in which you sit and write IT-level, aka ridiculously easy and stupid, code for 2 hours. I actually got bored during the test. :-p)

And Pluto is still a planet to me! :-p

[yubsie]

Oh, that is SORELY tempting.

It's some sort of multiple choice thing on WebCT and it's STUPID and they should just write on paper like normal people. :p

[melonriel.livejournal.com]

So clearly the lazy grader people are to blame for this because the computer can automatically grade it instead of them spending actual TIME grading. :-p

[yubsie]

Couldn't they at least do bubblesheets, or is that too much work?

[cristata_alba]

And they should write it on paper so they can get partial marks -
do you have any idea how much stress it is when you have multiple choice calculation questions? Long, five-minute multi-step calculation questions? And you don't get any marks for getting everything right except that one dropped negative on the fourth line?

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Yes, I was the test year for that stupid system. I can't believe they kept it. -_-;;

[yubsie]

Apparently laziness won out over what's best for everyone other than the marker.

[admiraljello.livejournal.com]

I love computers and all--but exams on campus that involve writing ought to be done on paper. That's just the way it works.

Also--I have discovered bringing your own computer to the library (preferably a cutting-edge and blazingly fast one) is preferable to using a school one in the library.

[yubsie]

You'd think that. :p

Alas, I don't have a laptop. :p

[admiraljello.livejournal.com]

Well, get one. I mean, one that's Ewok-sized. I think they make those now.

[yubsie]

I am rather poor :p

[chibifrieza.livejournal.com]

In MY day we wrote our midterms on PAPER and we LIKED it.

You're my hero today, okay? XD

[yubsie]

Yay, I get to be a hero!

[squallhighwind.livejournal.com]

Agree'd on the whole PC-exam thing. The only midterms that should be done on computer are things like stat (which is really time consuming if you hafta go through the data manually), or computer science. That's IT. With most other math and most of science...you SHOULD be able to do it on paper just as fast.

Oh...and i also agree with the Insurrection bit that the first reply suggested. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!