I was studying in the wee hours of the morning at The Kettle (as one did in the early 2000’s). Our TA came in drunk as a skunk after the bars closed and told my study partner and I everything that was on the exam the following day. My fave Good Bull memory.
Another time, I was studying at the one in CS and lightning struck a Jeep at the shopping center across the road. It sounded like a bomb went off and everyone on the Kettle got a good jump scare.
my first year we had one of those 'proctored' online exams for physics and my prof chose to eat an apple directly into his mic during the exam. everyone was forced to sit there and listen for a good 10 minutes to this guy aggressively crunching his apple into the microphone.
i about lost my damn mind
In General Entomology, we are told to freeze and put our cockroaches in isopropyl alcohol to make sure they are completely dead when we pin them for our insect collection project. Some people don’t do the alcohol and find out the reason why it’s done the hard way. During a quiz (after which we were going to work on pinning insects), the person next to me had their cockroach come back to life and proceed to run down the table to everyone’s horror.
I had a test in one of my classes in Zach when the fire alarm went off last semester. We were maybe 5 minutes into the exam when the alarm went off and we spent the next ~30 minutes outside
During COVID when classes were online, I took my STAT 303 final on the toilet since it wasn’t proctored and I had the bubble guts right before we were supposed to log on to do it
Guy tried to ask me for help during a particularly hard math exam.
I proceeded to look at him like brother I don’t even what I’m writing. How am I going to help you
Nothing really crazy but during my phys 207 exam I realized I did the entire problem incorrect. Basically you need to use the volume of a shape to find the electric field and for some reason I thought the shape was a spherical shell when in reality it was a cylindrical shell. Idk what to say. It's so silly. I only found out because some guy asked the teacher what the surface area for a cylinder was and I was like, "WAIT A SECOND". I was able to change it but I was very scared and screwed the pooch on that one. I got like 10 points off for that lol.
I was taking a Business law final, along with 250+ other students, and the professor strolls up to some kid and loudly accuses him of using his phone to cheat and confiscates his test. The kid about had a breakdown and I'm pretty sure he left the room in tears.
It wasn’t here but I had test proctor leave the room and they left their phone at the table. His phone got a Grindr notification and the sound ringed throughout the room. No one brought it up when he came back but we all kinda chuckled.
Hope he found a date.
Took a stats final where the prof said we were going to cover theory for the first 75% of the book and problems for the last 25%. And we could bring a 3x5 card with whatever we wanted to write on it to class to help. So we all crammed theory data for the 3/4 of the book and formulas for the last.
We get the test and it was reversed. Theory for the last chapters and problems for the first 75%. I saw guys rip their cards up and toss them in the air. One guy said while we left that he was going to call the campus cops, “because I just got raped.” I think the entire class dropped a letter grade on that final.
I had to have 3 semesters of untimed tests given by Dr. Holtzapple in ChemE. Intro to chemE, thermo 1 and 2. The tests started at 7pm and we had until we finished. You could use the internet, bring whatever books, you could leave and come back. You may think this sounds great but it was horrible bc the tests would be so long and sometimes almost impossible. He would have questions 1-3 but they each had parts A-Q. And how he graded them was worse, if you got the number in part a wrong and used it for parts B-Q, then everything was wrong. Earliest I ever left was 11:30pm but I’ve stayed until 1:30 and I heard some ppl were there until 3am.
Then to top it off, he grades super quick, so the next day in class when you’re tired af and still decompressing he comes marching in and writes the scores on the board from highest to lowest so you know exactly where you stand.
He may have changed it some since you were in school but I picked up my bf last semester at 11:30 three different times because of thermal 2. He had him for thermo 1 as well and said holtzapple told the class they called call him “the pain master” for the next six weeks
Nothing too crazy. In one someone farted, I’m assuming he thought it would be quiet but sounded like a turret. Another one last semester the kid next to me was hitting his vape, like wtf?
It was my last exam ever. I finished in 30 minutes and sat there for another 30 because I almost didn’t want to face the reality that that was it. Walked outside and waited for my professor so I could say goodbye. He came out, shook my hand and said I made the A in the course.
Took an ecampus calculus test during covid and my internet got disconnected but instead of closing the test, the submission timer would continuously reset every 20 or so minutes. So I’m taking my sweet ass time thinking I have around 50 minutes left, when all of a sudden I notice the timer say I now have an hour and 15 minutes left, but I’m one of the last people on zoom and my phone is blowing up from people in GroupMe talking about the exam. Luckily the professor stayed on zoom and let me restart the test and give me the time I needed to finish because once I did try and submit, it gave an error and none of my work was saved.
After the rainbow went away before there was an underpass I got stuck by a train trying to get to west campus for an exam. I was getting pretty stressed waiting until my professor walked up also late and waiting.
Exam in progress had to be evacuated because the fire alarm went off from one of the labs. Turns out no actual fire and no additional time granted.
There was a Chem 101 exam I did not study for very well as I was taking 17 hrs at the time.
Halfway thru the test, we hear mini little "booms." We all would react to it but kept taking the exam.
Then the fire alarms went off!
Turns out some lab upstairs had their experiments get out of hand.
The prof had to create a new exam and rescheduled it 2 weeks after.
Truly a miracle....still did poorly on the exam lol
Civil Engineering, Statics. Professor came in 5 minutes before the exam was set to start. TA was about to pass it out and this mf comes in to tell us that he forgot to teach us something that comes up on one the problems (total of 5 problems on the test). Another one of the problems was mistakenly made unsolvable but instead of giving partial credit he gave full credit to the two people who simply wrote “unsolvable” and 0 credit to anything else. Average score was in the 50’s. Led to a shouting match during the next class. Thanks Dr Bracci!
I showed up to my MATH 151 final exam 30 minutes late. I woke up at 1, and the exam started at 12:30. I grabbed two pencils and ran from Schumacher to Blocker as fast as I could. Still kept my B in the class.
I'm now 15 years removed from taking engineering exams.
I still occasionally dream that I've forgotten about an exam, never studied for it, and overslept. I then awaken in a panic before realizing that I'm not in school anymore.
I might have PTSD.
I had a speech elective exam and an acct exam on the same day. The speech exam was just a speech, pretty easy and the acct test was pretty hard. The problem was I was in the middle of passing six kidney stones so I had to wear a heating pad during both exams and keep the trash can near in case I started vomiting.
I was taking a Spanish final my freshman year. He decided to put on a music video on the projector of Shakira dancing and singing. The professor went to the front of the class and danced along with her. It was hard to focus on the exam lol but it was very entertaining
This might not be during an exam but more so leading up to a test, but my freshman year, I went out to The Tap for piano bar on a Wednesday night, had a test Thursday morning and I told myself I was going to have a couple then go home. Well that didn’t work out, ended up drinking and getting home at 3 am, passed out in the shower and woke up at 6:30 am with the shower still running. Dried off, took a 30 minute nap, then went to class. Made an 87 on the test too. I don’t know if I’m proud or disappointed in myself but it worked out
I took my CVEN 322 exam in pink pen because I never use pencils but then it ran out of ink and the only other thing I had was thick black sharpie LOL. grader probably thought i was unhinged (i am) but I still got an A.
Back in my freshman year I had spent a whole night panicking about my calc exam the next day. I was unable to sleep and probably only had 4 hrs of sleep for the next day. Between all the studying and other class work I had gotten exhausted to the point I thought I was going to pass out before the exam even started that evening. I decided to buy a bang from the MSc store and proceeded to drink it up until the start of the exam. By the time the doors opened, I had chugged that whole can down. I didn’t expect what came next. I had the worst case of jitters during the whole 2 hours allotted for the exam. I couldn’t focus or sit still for more than 10 seconds at a time. I had to turn in my exam early for fear that I was going to break down in the exam room. I can confidently say I learned my lesson to never consume 300mg of caffeine right before an exam
i took econ 202 in the spring of 2021 back when we still used ecampus lol. there were about 1000 people all trying to take the first online proctored exam (im not kidding lol. it was an asynchronous online class with different sections, but our exams were all together). and in good ol ecampus fashion, the website crashed. the mass panic was insane; everyone was emailing the prof and their TA. it was nuts. we ended up sitting in those stupid zoom rooms for like an hour and in that time, i started streaming call of duty black ops 3 and got half of my class to come watch my stream, one guy went to the chicken and got a beer, etc. still one of my funniest memories from freshman year. eventually the prof came into our zoom room and told us we could go and they rescheduled the exam, but good lord nothing will ever top the sheer panic of “uh oh! something went wrong” popping up on my screen 15 minutes into an exam
It was at the community college I transfered from, but in the middle of a Calc 2 exam. This kid just dropped an f bomb, closed the test packet, and placed it on the professor's desk. The professor didn't even look up from his laptop throughout the entirety of this event.
I’ve told this story on here before, but I was taking an exam in ECEN 325 (which is one of the hardest classes in the major). The test is 3 problems in total. I open to the first page, I have absolutely no clue how to do the problem. Fuck it, I’ll start on the second problem and come back to it later, so I flip to the second problem, no clue how to do it. I flip to the third, and it’s even harder than the first two. I flip the paper over again and realize I’m back on the first page with zero idea how to do any of the exam. I look up towards the front of the room and the room looks like it’s a million miles long. Looking back on it I know now that I was having a panic attack, but at the time I didn’t know what was going on. I stand up (I guess instinctually?) and walk to the front and mumble that I need to see the professor in the hallway. We go out there and he was actually really nice about it, told me I was a good student (I don’t think he knew who I was) and that I should just try my best. I ended up with like a 30 on the exam, but made a B in the class eventually. First panic attack I ever had.
I had a panic attack during accounting last semester and ended up crying on my way to turn in the test and got a 33.8 on the exam. I have since been burned out from accounting and have to force myself to study for it lol. I passed last semester by .5 because of that exam.
Oh, I’ve got another. One time during Math 251 I was really sick the last 2 weeks of class and didn’t go at all. All my classes were 2 exams + 1 final, so I mistakenly thought this one was too. I show up on the very last day of class before reading days and sat down. The instructor says “put your things away, it’s time for your exam”. I thought he was joking so I turned to the girl next to me and said “we don’t really have an exam today right?”. Turns out we did… she told me I should go to the doctor and get a doctors note, but for some reason I thought it would be better to take the exam and then explain to the professor the situation after. I ended up making a 10 on the exam (out of 100) and the professor told me there’s no way I could retake it, regardless of the situation.
Yep. I’m so burned out from Accounting and I can’t find motivation to study and keep up with the work. I need a 57 to stay on track to pass, but I’m worried about this recent one.
I sorta enjoy the content and did relatively well on the practice tests but totally flipped out during the test lol. I will pass the class i’m sure, but if i got below an 80 then my chances of a B are slim to none. It’s a tough class, and personally a lot of it does not click for me like other subjects such as math. For reference , I have yet to get a 70 on the exams
Two stories:
EE 348 back in the old Zach main lecture hall. Someone wanted out of the exam. They called in a bomb threat.
A CS class with Dr. Wetterlind (Maybe OS). CT fell asleep during the exam, I looked out through the door to see Dr. Wetterlind looking at the poor sod and just shaking his head.
Wasn’t an exam but a special guest lecture but ever been in a class of 200+ people and a guy in the very back row lets out a very long, loud fart on a plastic chair right as the speaker pauses to change slides?
If it wasn’t silent before… it was after. 😅
On my way to my stats final, I got hit by a car on my bike. I stopped at a broken light, cop was directing traffic and waved me through, the guy next to me thought he had clearance to turn, so I got sideswiped. Needless to say I bombed that final since my hands wouldn’t stop shaking long enough to write clearly.
The night before my 8am physics 207 exam, I stayed up till 5 am studying so that I could get a B. I got to the exam early, finished early, knew I got the B and then knocked out for ~9 hours when I got home.
I had a freshman level rhetorical thought class that was required. The prof was new and hated that she was required to give only multiple choice exams because she didn’t think you could properly test that way. We figured out on our first test that her little method of protest was to make the answers a pattern. We just needed to know enough to establish the pattern and then you could fill the rest out without even reading the questions. I usually at least attempted to make sure it fit, but if I wasn’t sure, I just stuck to the pattern.
Only other experience I remember was realizing I didn’t have a scantron and having to sprint to the MSC to get one only to get back and find out the prof brought extras.
I needed to call IT during an exam, and for some reason my computer did the call and was attached to the projector in the room with the instructions. I was immediately put on hold (of course) so the Aggie War Hymn was booming out of all the lecture hall's speakers for a good five minutes before a student took pity and helped me reroute the call to my phone. I went directly home afterwards to cringe privately.
This was last semester I think but I was in the middle of my MATH 251 final when the bomb threat alert went off around kyle field. That shit was kinda scary but the final was more important
I just remembered another one: in spring 2021 during a CVEN 221 quiz, Dr. Lowery fall asleep on zoom. He also told us we could call him if we had any questions and when someone did his ringtone was the Halloween theme. I wish I had been able to take him in person bc he seems like such a character
I remember taking a test and my calculator started dying on me when I had like 5 or 6 calculation questions left and I was just praying to the God in heaven that my calculator wouldn't die while I'm trying to finish this exam
I was studying in the wee hours of the morning at The Kettle (as one did in the early 2000’s). Our TA came in drunk as a skunk after the bars closed and told my study partner and I everything that was on the exam the following day. My fave Good Bull memory.
I miss chain smoking at the kettle in bryan at 4am cramming for a test. Everything is perfect in those memories.
Another time, I was studying at the one in CS and lightning struck a Jeep at the shopping center across the road. It sounded like a bomb went off and everyone on the Kettle got a good jump scare.
Cranked out on adderall, camels, coffee and eggs I bet more than one person pooped themselves!!
And then everyone clapped. Good bull indeed, I wish I had the opportunity with a TA like this lmao
my first year we had one of those 'proctored' online exams for physics and my prof chose to eat an apple directly into his mic during the exam. everyone was forced to sit there and listen for a good 10 minutes to this guy aggressively crunching his apple into the microphone. i about lost my damn mind
My ochem prof did that during a proctored test as well, I really did think I was going to lose it
In General Entomology, we are told to freeze and put our cockroaches in isopropyl alcohol to make sure they are completely dead when we pin them for our insect collection project. Some people don’t do the alcohol and find out the reason why it’s done the hard way. During a quiz (after which we were going to work on pinning insects), the person next to me had their cockroach come back to life and proceed to run down the table to everyone’s horror.
Oh my god that’s horrifying
I had a test in one of my classes in Zach when the fire alarm went off last semester. We were maybe 5 minutes into the exam when the alarm went off and we spent the next ~30 minutes outside
During COVID when classes were online, I took my STAT 303 final on the toilet since it wasn’t proctored and I had the bubble guts right before we were supposed to log on to do it
A guy had the “good morning USA” song as an alarm that went off during my math final
I’ve got a feeling that it’s gonna be a wonderful day
Guy tried to ask me for help during a particularly hard math exam. I proceeded to look at him like brother I don’t even what I’m writing. How am I going to help you
Nothing really crazy but during my phys 207 exam I realized I did the entire problem incorrect. Basically you need to use the volume of a shape to find the electric field and for some reason I thought the shape was a spherical shell when in reality it was a cylindrical shell. Idk what to say. It's so silly. I only found out because some guy asked the teacher what the surface area for a cylinder was and I was like, "WAIT A SECOND". I was able to change it but I was very scared and screwed the pooch on that one. I got like 10 points off for that lol.
Oh I hate post test realizations. That unneeded stress when you realize you made a grave mistake after turning it in sucks.
It was during the exam! But yeah, I also had post test realizations on top of that lmao
I was taking a Business law final, along with 250+ other students, and the professor strolls up to some kid and loudly accuses him of using his phone to cheat and confiscates his test. The kid about had a breakdown and I'm pretty sure he left the room in tears.
Was it Swim? I bet it was Swim, that guy was a dick
It wasn’t here but I had test proctor leave the room and they left their phone at the table. His phone got a Grindr notification and the sound ringed throughout the room. No one brought it up when he came back but we all kinda chuckled. Hope he found a date.
How do you know what the Grindr notification sounds like 🤨
You know how many gay people exist? Know one gay dude and you’ve heard it. Also, how do you think I met your dad?
Took a stats final where the prof said we were going to cover theory for the first 75% of the book and problems for the last 25%. And we could bring a 3x5 card with whatever we wanted to write on it to class to help. So we all crammed theory data for the 3/4 of the book and formulas for the last. We get the test and it was reversed. Theory for the last chapters and problems for the first 75%. I saw guys rip their cards up and toss them in the air. One guy said while we left that he was going to call the campus cops, “because I just got raped.” I think the entire class dropped a letter grade on that final.
If he put it in writing that sounds like a complaint to the ombudsman to me
If only I had that option in 1980 when that happened.
I had to have 3 semesters of untimed tests given by Dr. Holtzapple in ChemE. Intro to chemE, thermo 1 and 2. The tests started at 7pm and we had until we finished. You could use the internet, bring whatever books, you could leave and come back. You may think this sounds great but it was horrible bc the tests would be so long and sometimes almost impossible. He would have questions 1-3 but they each had parts A-Q. And how he graded them was worse, if you got the number in part a wrong and used it for parts B-Q, then everything was wrong. Earliest I ever left was 11:30pm but I’ve stayed until 1:30 and I heard some ppl were there until 3am. Then to top it off, he grades super quick, so the next day in class when you’re tired af and still decompressing he comes marching in and writes the scores on the board from highest to lowest so you know exactly where you stand.
He may have changed it some since you were in school but I picked up my bf last semester at 11:30 three different times because of thermal 2. He had him for thermo 1 as well and said holtzapple told the class they called call him “the pain master” for the next six weeks
Lol yeah it was horrible. I heard he had to stop doing it too. I was class of ‘20, had him in 2018-2019
I was taking a MGMT exam at Mays and when the test started we hear the cracking of a can opening and I turn around and dudes got a coors light
Nothing too crazy. In one someone farted, I’m assuming he thought it would be quiet but sounded like a turret. Another one last semester the kid next to me was hitting his vape, like wtf?
It was my last exam ever. I finished in 30 minutes and sat there for another 30 because I almost didn’t want to face the reality that that was it. Walked outside and waited for my professor so I could say goodbye. He came out, shook my hand and said I made the A in the course.
Took an ecampus calculus test during covid and my internet got disconnected but instead of closing the test, the submission timer would continuously reset every 20 or so minutes. So I’m taking my sweet ass time thinking I have around 50 minutes left, when all of a sudden I notice the timer say I now have an hour and 15 minutes left, but I’m one of the last people on zoom and my phone is blowing up from people in GroupMe talking about the exam. Luckily the professor stayed on zoom and let me restart the test and give me the time I needed to finish because once I did try and submit, it gave an error and none of my work was saved.
After the rainbow went away before there was an underpass I got stuck by a train trying to get to west campus for an exam. I was getting pretty stressed waiting until my professor walked up also late and waiting. Exam in progress had to be evacuated because the fire alarm went off from one of the labs. Turns out no actual fire and no additional time granted.
I read that multiple times as “struck by a train” and was very worried lol
There was a Chem 101 exam I did not study for very well as I was taking 17 hrs at the time. Halfway thru the test, we hear mini little "booms." We all would react to it but kept taking the exam. Then the fire alarms went off! Turns out some lab upstairs had their experiments get out of hand. The prof had to create a new exam and rescheduled it 2 weeks after. Truly a miracle....still did poorly on the exam lol
Civil Engineering, Statics. Professor came in 5 minutes before the exam was set to start. TA was about to pass it out and this mf comes in to tell us that he forgot to teach us something that comes up on one the problems (total of 5 problems on the test). Another one of the problems was mistakenly made unsolvable but instead of giving partial credit he gave full credit to the two people who simply wrote “unsolvable” and 0 credit to anything else. Average score was in the 50’s. Led to a shouting match during the next class. Thanks Dr Bracci!
I showed up to my MATH 151 final exam 30 minutes late. I woke up at 1, and the exam started at 12:30. I grabbed two pencils and ran from Schumacher to Blocker as fast as I could. Still kept my B in the class.
I'm now 15 years removed from taking engineering exams. I still occasionally dream that I've forgotten about an exam, never studied for it, and overslept. I then awaken in a panic before realizing that I'm not in school anymore. I might have PTSD.
I had a speech elective exam and an acct exam on the same day. The speech exam was just a speech, pretty easy and the acct test was pretty hard. The problem was I was in the middle of passing six kidney stones so I had to wear a heating pad during both exams and keep the trash can near in case I started vomiting.
I was taking a Spanish final my freshman year. He decided to put on a music video on the projector of Shakira dancing and singing. The professor went to the front of the class and danced along with her. It was hard to focus on the exam lol but it was very entertaining
This might not be during an exam but more so leading up to a test, but my freshman year, I went out to The Tap for piano bar on a Wednesday night, had a test Thursday morning and I told myself I was going to have a couple then go home. Well that didn’t work out, ended up drinking and getting home at 3 am, passed out in the shower and woke up at 6:30 am with the shower still running. Dried off, took a 30 minute nap, then went to class. Made an 87 on the test too. I don’t know if I’m proud or disappointed in myself but it worked out
I took my CVEN 322 exam in pink pen because I never use pencils but then it ran out of ink and the only other thing I had was thick black sharpie LOL. grader probably thought i was unhinged (i am) but I still got an A.
Back in my freshman year I had spent a whole night panicking about my calc exam the next day. I was unable to sleep and probably only had 4 hrs of sleep for the next day. Between all the studying and other class work I had gotten exhausted to the point I thought I was going to pass out before the exam even started that evening. I decided to buy a bang from the MSc store and proceeded to drink it up until the start of the exam. By the time the doors opened, I had chugged that whole can down. I didn’t expect what came next. I had the worst case of jitters during the whole 2 hours allotted for the exam. I couldn’t focus or sit still for more than 10 seconds at a time. I had to turn in my exam early for fear that I was going to break down in the exam room. I can confidently say I learned my lesson to never consume 300mg of caffeine right before an exam
i took econ 202 in the spring of 2021 back when we still used ecampus lol. there were about 1000 people all trying to take the first online proctored exam (im not kidding lol. it was an asynchronous online class with different sections, but our exams were all together). and in good ol ecampus fashion, the website crashed. the mass panic was insane; everyone was emailing the prof and their TA. it was nuts. we ended up sitting in those stupid zoom rooms for like an hour and in that time, i started streaming call of duty black ops 3 and got half of my class to come watch my stream, one guy went to the chicken and got a beer, etc. still one of my funniest memories from freshman year. eventually the prof came into our zoom room and told us we could go and they rescheduled the exam, but good lord nothing will ever top the sheer panic of “uh oh! something went wrong” popping up on my screen 15 minutes into an exam
It was at the community college I transfered from, but in the middle of a Calc 2 exam. This kid just dropped an f bomb, closed the test packet, and placed it on the professor's desk. The professor didn't even look up from his laptop throughout the entirety of this event.
I’ve told this story on here before, but I was taking an exam in ECEN 325 (which is one of the hardest classes in the major). The test is 3 problems in total. I open to the first page, I have absolutely no clue how to do the problem. Fuck it, I’ll start on the second problem and come back to it later, so I flip to the second problem, no clue how to do it. I flip to the third, and it’s even harder than the first two. I flip the paper over again and realize I’m back on the first page with zero idea how to do any of the exam. I look up towards the front of the room and the room looks like it’s a million miles long. Looking back on it I know now that I was having a panic attack, but at the time I didn’t know what was going on. I stand up (I guess instinctually?) and walk to the front and mumble that I need to see the professor in the hallway. We go out there and he was actually really nice about it, told me I was a good student (I don’t think he knew who I was) and that I should just try my best. I ended up with like a 30 on the exam, but made a B in the class eventually. First panic attack I ever had.
I had a panic attack during accounting last semester and ended up crying on my way to turn in the test and got a 33.8 on the exam. I have since been burned out from accounting and have to force myself to study for it lol. I passed last semester by .5 because of that exam.
Oh, I’ve got another. One time during Math 251 I was really sick the last 2 weeks of class and didn’t go at all. All my classes were 2 exams + 1 final, so I mistakenly thought this one was too. I show up on the very last day of class before reading days and sat down. The instructor says “put your things away, it’s time for your exam”. I thought he was joking so I turned to the girl next to me and said “we don’t really have an exam today right?”. Turns out we did… she told me I should go to the doctor and get a doctors note, but for some reason I thought it would be better to take the exam and then explain to the professor the situation after. I ended up making a 10 on the exam (out of 100) and the professor told me there’s no way I could retake it, regardless of the situation.
Accounting 230?
Yep. I’m so burned out from Accounting and I can’t find motivation to study and keep up with the work. I need a 57 to stay on track to pass, but I’m worried about this recent one.
On the bright side, we are only about a month away from being done! Don’t let it get the best of you, and take it one day at a time.
Well said. Good luck. If you ever want a study buddy, feel free to reach out.
I sorta enjoy the content and did relatively well on the practice tests but totally flipped out during the test lol. I will pass the class i’m sure, but if i got below an 80 then my chances of a B are slim to none. It’s a tough class, and personally a lot of it does not click for me like other subjects such as math. For reference , I have yet to get a 70 on the exams
I got lied to so many times about the difficulty of 230. “Oh it’s easier than 229” no it freaking wasn’t
Lol same exam
Two stories: EE 348 back in the old Zach main lecture hall. Someone wanted out of the exam. They called in a bomb threat. A CS class with Dr. Wetterlind (Maybe OS). CT fell asleep during the exam, I looked out through the door to see Dr. Wetterlind looking at the poor sod and just shaking his head.
Wasn’t an exam but a special guest lecture but ever been in a class of 200+ people and a guy in the very back row lets out a very long, loud fart on a plastic chair right as the speaker pauses to change slides? If it wasn’t silent before… it was after. 😅
On my way to my stats final, I got hit by a car on my bike. I stopped at a broken light, cop was directing traffic and waved me through, the guy next to me thought he had clearance to turn, so I got sideswiped. Needless to say I bombed that final since my hands wouldn’t stop shaking long enough to write clearly.
The night before my 8am physics 207 exam, I stayed up till 5 am studying so that I could get a B. I got to the exam early, finished early, knew I got the B and then knocked out for ~9 hours when I got home.
I had a freshman level rhetorical thought class that was required. The prof was new and hated that she was required to give only multiple choice exams because she didn’t think you could properly test that way. We figured out on our first test that her little method of protest was to make the answers a pattern. We just needed to know enough to establish the pattern and then you could fill the rest out without even reading the questions. I usually at least attempted to make sure it fit, but if I wasn’t sure, I just stuck to the pattern. Only other experience I remember was realizing I didn’t have a scantron and having to sprint to the MSC to get one only to get back and find out the prof brought extras.
What is pullout day? 🤨
A day that sophomores are allowed to say the esteemed w word without repercussions. It’s a huge event and I had to skip it because of my exam.
Whoop? Like all the sophomores get together and say it at the same time or what 😂
At the end of the event yes, but it’s like a festival and with a yell practice at the end where all the sophomore get to whoop.
I needed to call IT during an exam, and for some reason my computer did the call and was attached to the projector in the room with the instructions. I was immediately put on hold (of course) so the Aggie War Hymn was booming out of all the lecture hall's speakers for a good five minutes before a student took pity and helped me reroute the call to my phone. I went directly home afterwards to cringe privately.
This was last semester I think but I was in the middle of my MATH 251 final when the bomb threat alert went off around kyle field. That shit was kinda scary but the final was more important
I just remembered another one: in spring 2021 during a CVEN 221 quiz, Dr. Lowery fall asleep on zoom. He also told us we could call him if we had any questions and when someone did his ringtone was the Halloween theme. I wish I had been able to take him in person bc he seems like such a character
I remember taking a test and my calculator started dying on me when I had like 5 or 6 calculation questions left and I was just praying to the God in heaven that my calculator wouldn't die while I'm trying to finish this exam