Look for ambulances and see who's chasing them?

I went to a soc prof the day of an exam, and told him I'd just come from English exam that day I'd been up all night prepping for, and could I please take his exam the next day. He was fine with it, I suspect because I was clearly fried by then. And it's not like you could cram for his tests anyway; if you didn't understand the lectures you weren't going to suddenly comprehend things overnight.

Oh, and the killer English exam was for Dr. Dwyer, who was interesting. He was Harvard-educated, very old-school, called us all Mister and Miss. That was a survey course, and I think we had a mid-term and a final and that was your grade. I don't remember any papers, at least. And his exams were tough. When he explained that yes, the final exam would be cumulative and include things that had been on the mid-term, a lot of students started whining, which I thought was pathetic. Yes, that makes it harder, but it's not unfair. The premise here is that you want to learn this stuff, which implies that you'll retain it for more than 2 months. Suck it up.

That was the only B I got in an English class, and I was totally satisfied with it. Though it helps that I took another class with him the following year and got an A that time.

bon bon, aren't those the guys that advertise on the back of buses? At least they do here.

My Analysis of Algorithms professor refused to let me make up my missed midterm. I missed midterms a lot, but I was a sickly and accident-prone university student. I almost got away with it, but for any course required for your degree you needed a higher pass for it to count. I retook it, got an A, and still resent the cow. Despite the really hot guy I made eyes at the second time round.

Today? Not great. I also need to pack. Airport shuttle comes in three+ hours.

I was a terrible student for a good part of university. Skipping class, passing in papers super late, always scamming extensions (after my first year (which was a great books survey course where you could only have two late papers per term,) doing about half the work required. It took a good kick in the ass by one of my profs. (My favourite prof) to get my head screwed on. She also taught me two great university surviving lessons: A)If you can't get up in the morning, don't register for 8:30 classes. B) Take the prof, not the class. A good prof can make any subject a revelation. (My prof and 16th century prose and poetry) A bad prof can kill any subject you love. (The two profs who taught me prose and poetry.)

But I guess the university experience for me was not just about the course work, but learning to take responsibility for myself. Also, I realized I don't have a brain suited to academia.

Anyway, the best story I heard was that this guy I knew was asking the director of our first year program for an extension on a paper after he'd used up his two late papers, and he was making all kinds of excuses about not getting the work and needing more time to think. The director finally said to him, "Well maybe if you smoked less pot, you'd would have such a hard time getting the material." Eveyone was like, "BURN!"

bon bon, aren't those the guys that advertise on the back of buses? At least they do here.

Yeah, but apparently these lawyers are not in those firms. I've never googled a firm before and come up with nothing. It's kind of shady, but the people I've talked to have all been nice. We all gotta pay the bills somehow.

Dear co-workers,

Please decide what you would like to appear on business cards, marketing materials, etc. before you contact me asking for them in a rush, rather than waiting until after I've created the files to remember all the text and image changes you wanted.

Yours truly, Sick and Tired of Hearing "Oh, one thing I forgot to mention..."

When he explained that yes, the final exam would be cumulative and include things that had been on the mid-term, a lot of students started whining, which I thought was pathetic.

Um, aren't all finals cumulative for the year? At least for my schooling (both high school and college) they were. I can't remember a class that didn't include stuff from the entire course on the final.

My two best (as in "easiest") finals were for Philosophy of Humor (a test which actually included matching on the final!!) and Astronomy, that class was an offshoot of Basketball Physics (the physics class so easy even the basketball players could pass), and the teacher gave us three tests throughout the semester covering 1/4 of the class each, and then the final had 25% of the material covering the last 1/4 of the semester, and the other 3/4 of the test was questions from the previous three tests, word for word. So, if you memorized the first three tests (which he had returned to us after grading them), you were guaranteed 75% without even looking over the newer material.

I can't remember a class that didn't include stuff from the entire course on the final.

My favorite professor in grad school (took four classes from him) didn't give cummulative finals. Three books in the first half of the semester, mid-term. Three books in the second half, final.

Lee or Sparky or anyone else: do you know a way other than >Martindale to locate an attorney? I've been given some PI attorneys >to contact and I'm shocked I can't find them on Martindale, google, >the yellow pages, findlaw...

Delurking to suggest ....

If you know in which state they are members of the bar, you can sometimes find them on the webpage for the bar association. The New York State Bar Association has a link to a search for NY attorneys on its website. Search For NY Attorneys.

Massachusetts has a search available on the Board of Bar Overseers webpage.