Today was my first of two finals. It was a pretty easy one since it was the Jim Crow American History final (buts lets be honest, neither finals were be what I consider to be hard). However, while the actual test may be easy the set-up of the test was not as pain-free.
Imagine 350+ students in a giant warehouse that are all taking some test (but not necessarily the same one because there are 5 or more classes assigned to each test period). On top of that since there are multiple test going on, not all of them have the same time-limit. Some kid has a 30 minute test for an education class, another kid has 2 hours for his philosophy test, another gets an hour for his english test, and so forth. Every few minutes students were getting up,shuffling around, or being escorted to the restroom (flash back to standardize test, right?). The room also has assigned seats (yes, assigned seats for all 300+ kids) so this distracting nose is coming at you from all sounds and with it being one giant warehouse the sound students make on one side of the room, can be heard on the other. You can already picture this been a crazy, loud environment, especially for students that are taking their finals.
But that's not all. On top of the sniffling noses and obnoxious coughing, it decides to rain for a brief period of time. So now, there is the not-so-smoothing sound of rain pattering (LOUDLY) on the tin roof of this warehouse.
Add all these noises and distractions up and you can picture the setting for St. Mary's finals. Beautiful, right?
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