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.

In high school, I think most of my final exams were cumulative. Not in college. Well, not in the liberal arts classes I was taking. I suspect the engineering classes were different.

(don't ask)

Why, is it pot related?

Better living through chemistry. Profoundly unsafe, but not for work. For life.

on Bones: How do the powers that be know that Angela is married (yet not divorced) without knowing the name of the guy?

Trudy: I'm not sure, but there has been talk about the officiant in Fiji having had records--which have been destroyed. I got the impression that the State Department has records but never showed them to her. That's a good point, though, hadn't thought about it.

Why, is it pot related?

Ha. It should have been -- that would have been less stupid than the actual reason.

Timelies all!

Am sitting here eating the M&Ms I got as a favor at the rehearsal dinner.(They have the bride & groom's names on them- ok, shortened versions of the names)

When I got my transcript a few years ago, there were classes I would have sworn I'd never taken.

Oh, that totally happened to me. History of Philosphy? Seriously?

Then there's the summer course I took on the French Revolution. I spent three hours every day for three weeks frantically writing pages notes while our prof. lectured at quite a clip. Then I vomitted everything back in one midterm and one exam. What do I remember? Soemthign about meeting on a tennis court... I think I retained more from watching a production of Marat/Sade.

My niece is going to be Cinderella [link] for Halloween and I'm thinking of sending a costume for my nephew. What could be be that would coordinate?

A pumpkin?

Eeee! With wheels on the side, so that he's her carriage!

What a great idea! Alas, he will be Cinderella's monkey friend instead.

Astronomy, that class was an offshoot of Basketball Physics (the physics class so easy even the basketball players could pass),

See, many THINK this when they sign up for Astro 110 at my dad's U. It is so much not the case. Basic algebra is required and all of the department members are kinda hardasses (and my dad is the cantankerous hardass.) Many of the students react as if it was an extreme injustice. Which just gets them heaped with scorn. I'm continually surprised that it still has the "easy" rep. (Though, um, I thought it was easy when I took it in high school. However, I was raised on the stuff, so I pretty much already knew the material.)

My mom was a horrible student her first 2 years. She took the "get plenty of sleep before a test" to heart. So much so that she replaced studying with sleep. Needless to say, she flunked a lot. Then she moved out with her sisters to help care for the twin nephews and learned some study skills.