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enismirdalI seem to be doing one of those things where I successively stack my body with a larger and larger weight of tiredness until I fall over.
I'm currently about at the falling over stage.
Maths test today was insane. Firstly, supervisor was a bit late, so I had to get everyone settled in and sorted out to start off with. Eni versus 50 first year students. Well, I managed. I still get so weirded out being called "Miss". Then, we found we had about 15 Pharmaceutical Chemists in the test. For some reason, all the people on this course are not registered in the computer system, so they couldn't login to the test website. So the supervisor had to add them all to the database manually - which took a while as some of them had unreadable handwriting and some were disorganised twerps who'd lost their ID cards. By the time the last few logged in and got working, it was 32 minutes into a 40 minute test.
2 minutes later, the fire alarm went off.
So everyone had to submit their tests at whatever point they were at, and evacuate. There was then the usual scrum of people clustered around me and the supervisor, wanting to know how their marks would be affected and so on. I guess it's understandable. In many cases, their tests are getting totally scrapped and as long as they attended the session, their mathematical competence will be assessed another way (to be decided).
Second session got started a mere 10 minutes late and finished only about 5 minutes late, so that wasn't too bad. Problems largely dealth with swiftly, except for one "gentleman" and one "lady" sitting towards the back (troublemakers always sit at the back, it seems...) who kept talking every time they thought I wasn't looking. Was rather annoyed by this. I wasn't really in a position to chuck them out (and in many ways it wouldn't have made a difference, as the purpose of the test was not to collect marks but to see if people needed remedial lessons), but I made sure supervisor knew.
There is other news...
I FIXED THE CODE, THE DATABASE, THE EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!
In the words of a bad Mary-Sue I came across in a Star Trek fanfiction about 7 years ago, "I'm tall, I'm handsome, and I'm strong! And I've got a cock that's 10 feet long!"
Huzzah!
Thusly, am I rewarded with a nice, full-bodied Aussie red outside my normal budgeting allowance.
I'm currently about at the falling over stage.
Maths test today was insane. Firstly, supervisor was a bit late, so I had to get everyone settled in and sorted out to start off with. Eni versus 50 first year students. Well, I managed. I still get so weirded out being called "Miss". Then, we found we had about 15 Pharmaceutical Chemists in the test. For some reason, all the people on this course are not registered in the computer system, so they couldn't login to the test website. So the supervisor had to add them all to the database manually - which took a while as some of them had unreadable handwriting and some were disorganised twerps who'd lost their ID cards. By the time the last few logged in and got working, it was 32 minutes into a 40 minute test.
2 minutes later, the fire alarm went off.
So everyone had to submit their tests at whatever point they were at, and evacuate. There was then the usual scrum of people clustered around me and the supervisor, wanting to know how their marks would be affected and so on. I guess it's understandable. In many cases, their tests are getting totally scrapped and as long as they attended the session, their mathematical competence will be assessed another way (to be decided).
Second session got started a mere 10 minutes late and finished only about 5 minutes late, so that wasn't too bad. Problems largely dealth with swiftly, except for one "gentleman" and one "lady" sitting towards the back (troublemakers always sit at the back, it seems...) who kept talking every time they thought I wasn't looking. Was rather annoyed by this. I wasn't really in a position to chuck them out (and in many ways it wouldn't have made a difference, as the purpose of the test was not to collect marks but to see if people needed remedial lessons), but I made sure supervisor knew.
There is other news...
I FIXED THE CODE, THE DATABASE, THE EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!
In the words of a bad Mary-Sue I came across in a Star Trek fanfiction about 7 years ago, "I'm tall, I'm handsome, and I'm strong! And I've got a cock that's 10 feet long!"
Huzzah!
Thusly, am I rewarded with a nice, full-bodied Aussie red outside my normal budgeting allowance.
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Date: 13 Dec 2006 19:30 (UTC)no subject
Date: 13 Dec 2006 19:55 (UTC)And I never teach first year students, thankfully. I'd kill them all (g)
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Date: 13 Dec 2006 23:17 (UTC)And that just sucks with the math tests...
*hugs*
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Date: 13 Dec 2006 23:35 (UTC)Maths test was an interesting experience, anyway. But I got an e-mail from the test supervisor this evening:
Dear [Eni],
Thanks again for your heroic demonstrating. There's no way we could have
kept the test going through all the problems without your help.
Cheers,
[test supervisor]
So that was sweet.
By the way, I got a pretty pink card through the post today! First one of the season - thank you! *hugs* :)
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 18:34 (UTC)I sent you a little something in the post. Just a little thing. *hugs* It went out last Saturday.
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 18:40 (UTC)I'm dead pleased to be able to say, "Ha, I did it!" Especially as, in the end, I basically did it all by myself!
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Date: 15 Dec 2006 02:22 (UTC)And that is so cool. It is a very good feeling. I love solving a riddle like that. Sounds very satisfying. Not that I understand any of what you are talking about. Heh.