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  • Svind
    Isn't Christmas tomorrow? Or is it custom to celebrate it on its eve?
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    LiraTirsoCaduceo
    LiraTirsoCaduceo
    Here we celebrate throughout the night, from 24th to 25th, having its center on midnight. The passage from one day to the other is the most important part, just like New Year celebrations.
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    MySpace Tom
    MySpace Tom
    But @Punp, if Americans celebrated it on Christmas Eve, then the eve of Christmas Eve would be the designated day of last-minute shopping
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    Punp
    Punp
    Ad infinitum, causing Americans to engage in panicked buying year round! I'm glad that's not the realty /s
    Svind
    Finally, the midterms are over. And it sure went off with a bang rather than a whimper. A computer aided technical drawing exam (basically a "draw this in AutoCAD" test) that was supposed to take an hour and half took over two and a half hours because zoomers literally don't know how to create a new folder on their desktops or to click "save as". I don't even know how to use AutoCAD but I had to aid them the entire way through on how to save their drawings. Incredible.

    That was not an exaggeration.
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    Math Equal Angelic Mantra
    Math Equal Angelic Mantra
    You would think by the time of midterms they would have figured out how to handle files by the midterm. I wonder if their aren't some zoomers who are good with command line stuff but suck at any desktop GUI. I know I still struggle to use a smart phone from time to time, even though those things are designed like phisher price toys.
    Svind
    Svind
    I feel like they would piss their pants in pure terror if they ever saw a CLI.

    But I did say to one of them that I don't blame them, they've grown up with phones and tablets instead of computers, but they really need to learn how to operate one.
    Svind
    In exam, Prof. forgot to print 2/3rds of the exam papers. However, it's in a way that each paper is missing 2/3rds of it. He's making all the pupils wait while he prints over 360 pieces of paper, the exam has been "over" for about half an hour now.

    Can't make this shit up.
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    Svind
    Svind
    Inza
    Inza
    I once had an exam from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, teacher arrived at 10:10 AM, I had left the classroom already and when I rushed back he gave me a USB and sent me to print my own exam

    I decided to Google all the answers on the way back and finished the exam around 10:40
    Doctor Dirck
    Doctor Dirck
    Dude Uni or College is the most "Getting by" type of shit. When I went we had this guy called Mr. Opossum who was some undergrad teacher or something and was worse off than the students he was teaching. I'd get close to class and get stopped by a classmate who'd be like "Yo check your email class is canceled. Opossum lost track of time watching Gunsmoke, so he was going to be late anyways, and then he got out to his car and the battery was dead. See you next week man!" I had that class probably 32 times that semester and it was canceled probably 10 times.
    Svind
    Midterms are approaching, I hate this time of the semester like nothing else. Time to just stand there and stare at people for hours and watch as they get ready to ask me questions about the most basic stuff that they should've learned 3 years ago.

    And I will be invigilating some engineering midterms as well, it's just the worst.
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    Svind
    Svind
    I have invigilated quite a lot of exams at this point, and it's always a mixed bag.

    Deck (I teach mariners for context, and I have a deck officer background) is usually chill, but their exams are god awful long (some take around 3 hours), and they usually ask the most baffling questions. Sometimes it feels like they don't even know their port and starboard. Deck also has the most studious pupils, ironically, and a lot of people who stay until the very end of the exam so I have to stay there until the very end as well. I can usually occupy myself by solving the exam myself though, so it's fine. And it's been a good opportunity for me to scout new assistants so far, which's a plus. Overall, a bit boring but nothing too bad. Sometimes the questions are funny, and it lets me keep up to date with what's being taught in those lectures.

    Invigilating engineers' exams is something out of hell though, at least in my experience. I carry around 5 scientific calculators and it still won't be enough to supply those who forgot theirs. Majority of them don't own a single eraser, in fact I don't think you can assemble a single full sized eraser among all of them. They talk a bunch during the exam, not even trying to cheat mind you, just chatting or complaining about the exam, so I have to shush them like toddlers. Oh and another thing you can't assemble a full set of among them is a proper uniform. You'll see a bunch of seniors in a 1st year class, in fact I think I'll see some of my regulars this year too, not looking forward to that. One positive is that 30-40% of the pupils who are taking the exam will leave once the mandatory no-leaving period ends, so that takes some weight off of things. Overall, I hate it. It's easily the hardest and the most chaotic part of my job, and I train captains 40 years older than me!

    I don't usually mingle with departments other than maritime, but once or twice I invigilated lectures shared between maritime and other departments. The other kids are your standard uni students to be honest, they aren't too chaotic or anything. Those exams are usually in the amphitheater type classrooms though, which I really don't think works great for exams physically. No complaints other than that.
    LostintheCycle
    LostintheCycle
    Wow, I had the impression that you were some sort of arcane history professor all this time.
    How do the deck exams work? It sounds like it would be a small number of people doing a deck exam at once.
    Svind
    Svind
    Oh no, don't think practical exams. Those are a whole another territory, I enjoy those. I'm talking strictly about written exams here, like standards, regulation or theory. The most interesting are navigation exams whete they're given a chart each and they must plan a navigation and plot a route, and I collect those charts as the answer sheet.

    I'm glad I give academic wizard vibes though.
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