The no-show
11 May 2007 18:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enismirdalA few weeks ago there was a request e-mailed round the postgrads for someone willing to chaperone a student over lunchtime. Basically, the student needed to be quarantined for a few hours, as the exam she was sitting in the afternoon was one her colleagues had sat that morning.
The pay was good and it seemed like an easy and pleasant task, so I volunteered. The student affairs administrator explained to me that it was simply a matter of collecting her from the morning exam, taking her to a separate room for lunch and making sure she doesn't talk to anyone, and then delivering her to her second exam in good time for its start.
Today was the day I had to do it, so I found the relevant exam room in Engineering and waited outside for the exam to finish, clutching my sandwich and some papers (to give me something to do in case she wanted to revise over lunchtime and therefore would not appreciate my conversation!). At the end of the exam I went into the room with the exam attendant (another first year PhD student) and we cross-referenced the student's name, exam number and seat number, only to find that she was marked "absent" on the attendance register!
So after all that she didn't even turn up! I suspect this will mean she'll forfeit the second exam of the day too, the one that her friends took in the morning - if she's not supervised for all we know she could be getting all the answers! Silly girl... Although it's certainly possible she didn't turn up for that one either.
Lucky for me, I still get paid for the scheduled time, and an extra half hour for my troubles! Hurrah!
The pay was good and it seemed like an easy and pleasant task, so I volunteered. The student affairs administrator explained to me that it was simply a matter of collecting her from the morning exam, taking her to a separate room for lunch and making sure she doesn't talk to anyone, and then delivering her to her second exam in good time for its start.
Today was the day I had to do it, so I found the relevant exam room in Engineering and waited outside for the exam to finish, clutching my sandwich and some papers (to give me something to do in case she wanted to revise over lunchtime and therefore would not appreciate my conversation!). At the end of the exam I went into the room with the exam attendant (another first year PhD student) and we cross-referenced the student's name, exam number and seat number, only to find that she was marked "absent" on the attendance register!
So after all that she didn't even turn up! I suspect this will mean she'll forfeit the second exam of the day too, the one that her friends took in the morning - if she's not supervised for all we know she could be getting all the answers! Silly girl... Although it's certainly possible she didn't turn up for that one either.
Lucky for me, I still get paid for the scheduled time, and an extra half hour for my troubles! Hurrah!
