I can’t write your exam, I need to shop
What with people talking about students making unreasonable requests around exams, I will talk about one of mine.
A few years ago it was my cousin’s bar mitzvah, and I didn’t have a dress. (Oh yes, you know where this is going.) And my father was heading down to NYC for a day to do a trade show, and I could go with him and shop! And just hang around NYC for the day, which is always fun. The show was Fri/Sat/Sun, but he wanted to be there Friday (he was willing to switch to Saturday, but). And I had a midterm on that Friday.
So I went, somewhat abashed, and told the professor this, with the comment that of course I could take the exam on Friday, but if other people were already taking it at some other date, could I maybe write the exam then, with those other people?
I had a wonderful time (though I had a slight flu), found a dress and got a free makeover in Macy’s that Friday.
December 15th, 2004 at 11:46 pm
If your professor approved it, free ride, eh?
December 16th, 2004 at 12:13 pm
Yeah. Well, since other people were already writing the exam at a different time, for an actual good reason, no skin off her nose to let me be one of them. But I love sharing the story that I got to write an exam at a special time to go shopping.