vw, in what subject is the exam? Either way, good luck with it.

Behavioral Neuroscience.

I didn't know how to study for it, because it's a make-up exam and will be all essay, since the prof doesn't give the same exam for make-ups (to keep cheating to a minimum). So, it should be interesting.

OMG y'all I just got home from watching Walk the Line and my accent has regressed like WOAH. so wrong.

Who said this? Because as Steph can attest, I totally fell back into Tennessee drawl when I watched this movie, especially 'cause it's full of tennessee accents.

She did, and it's hella cute when she slips back into a drawl.

it should be interesting

Not the first word I would choose to describe an exam, but it's still OK.

The universities I know in Israel have a date for a make-up exam for each class, a "second chance", in case you had to be absent on the original date due to whatever reason. I guess there's nothing like this in your school, if today's exam is only for you?

Tep, good luck with the blood test today.

I remembered the other half of what I wanted to say about accents last night too--watching all this Farscape has also fooled around with my accent a little too, because Browder is from Memphis; and when Crichton gets a little whackadoo, his accent thickens up considerably and he says stuff like "boy" and "son." Now, while I never usually melt for good ol' Southern boys, there's something about Browder that makes me go guh. It's probably that he's a damn hotass.

I gueaa there's nothing like this in your school, if today's exam is only for you?

Yeah, American universities are only accomodating if you make them be.

And to be fair, I'd have abused the hell out of an accomodation like that.

American universities are only accomodating if you make them be.

I wonder what's the source of the difference. I mean, having people here on reserve duty during their academic studies can't create such a vast difference, right?

[Edit: every class has two exams, term A and term B, and that's that. No more. If you missed term A or failed it, you can be tested again on term B.]

I like Indian, and Thai. I am trying to get more experimental about sushi. I know it's good, but I don't gravitate toward it. I need to hang out with more people who like sushi, I think. There's a Cambodian place here which is yum. I like pho. I like water chestnuts and greens.

Chinese food, I love, but have really had only American Chinese food, and like Nutty, I crave it like junk food. Going between Cambridge and Salem up rt. 1, we are always passing Kowloon, this gigantical hoooge Chinese place/comedy club and I SO want to go there, even though it's like, rt. 1 cuisine. I really want to get to Boston's Chinatown area for some dim sum soon.

TAR has scarred me. I'm glad to see that it seems to be back on track though. I didn't watch, due to aforementioned scarring.

I will have Thai food this week, I think!

I had Italian food last night and it was awesome.

I'd have abused the hell out of an accomodation like that

I requested this accomodation for midterms a lot. Only one teacher denied it. Didn't care about notes from doctors or anything. I aced her class the second time round, but I never stopped hating her.

The extra semester I took to accomodate retaking it was the most fun semester ever, and is perhaps responsible for me meeting my best friend even now, but I still hate her.

Oh, sure, but I didn't have any actual need for it. For me, it would have been accomodating my disinclination to sleep or study until crunch time.

But, as to Nilly's question about why, my feeling is there is a pervasive suspicion that students requesting accomodation are doing it for my reasons, rather than in response to real need. And that really sucks for the people who are not me.