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.

Oh, lord. I'm looking on iTunes for this piece I'm doing in one of my choruses. Rossini's Petite Misse Solennelle, which means it's a Mass with Latin text. Including the bit that goes "cum sancto spiritu in gloria dei patris"

Except iTunes thinks that "cum" is a bad word and displays it as "c*m".

Oh, lord. I'm looking on iTunes for this piece I'm doing in one of my choruses. Rossini's Petite Misse Solennelle, which means it's a Mass with Latin text. Including the bit that goes "cum sancto spiritu in gloria dei patris"

Except iTunes thinks that "cum" is a bad word and displays it as "c*m".

They've taken the trinity and made it a threesome. That's disrespectful.

That's like Discovery Channel insisting on blurring out animal genitalia on Dirty Jobs.

The insanely difficult Art History prof I mentioned earlier today graded on a strict bell curve within the single class he was grading. Which had 7 students, so only one person could earn an A and one was guaranteed a D no matter how hard they studied.

I also bear a seething grudge toward him for marking one of my papers down because I didn't use the words chiaroscuro and tenebrism in it—vocabulary that he had not yet taught in class. (I believe I dealt with bold light/dark contrasts being used to dramatic effect in the artworks being discussed, so the concepts were there even if the specific terminology was not.)

Except iTunes thinks that "cum" is a bad word and displays it as "c*m".

Ha!!

I don't remember college in as much detail as some of you people. When I got my transcript a few years ago, there were classes I would have sworn I'd never taken.

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.

This looks like what I'm looking for...thanks!

Or at least, they start college less prepared than they used to.

I find that we have to spoon feed students a lot of stuff that I wasn't given in college, and that failure spoon feed results in students who panic and flail and find themselves unable to perform said task. I wouldn't call that entitlement, not sure what I'd call it. Lack of life skills? But dude, I lacked life skills when I was a freshman, somehow I coped.