Last Thursday I was scheduled to make up my Aerodynamics midterm (which I had missed over Simchat Torah). As fate would have it there was a power failure. Not just any power failure, an extended outage, in fact as of this afternoon the power company still hadn't found where the underground cable blew out. My exam was scheduled for 4:00, I started it at 4:15 (sundown) in a conference room in the engineering building. As would be expected it got dark quickly, and suddenly I was taking an exam in a room with no lights at night. Fortunately, I have a flash light in my backpack.
My initial setup, note the sealed envelope with the exam in it.
My view after about 20 minutes (and this is the actual picture I took with the flash off, not just a black plate, if you open it you can see the small amount of light reflecting off of my watch in the right hand side, you can also see the table to some degree).
The same view, but with my flashlight on (so this is how I took the exam).
Finally the same image but with the flash on, you can see the flashlight on the exam booklet (if you look close you can even see the compass). And yes, I was taking the exam by myself with no supervison, although to be fair it is rather hard to cheat on an open book, open notes, open quiz, and open home work exam.
My initial setup, note the sealed envelope with the exam in it.
My view after about 20 minutes (and this is the actual picture I took with the flash off, not just a black plate, if you open it you can see the small amount of light reflecting off of my watch in the right hand side, you can also see the table to some degree).
The same view, but with my flashlight on (so this is how I took the exam).
Finally the same image but with the flash on, you can see the flashlight on the exam booklet (if you look close you can even see the compass). And yes, I was taking the exam by myself with no supervison, although to be fair it is rather hard to cheat on an open book, open notes, open quiz, and open home work exam.
He's not kidding. If you enhance the picture he took with the flash off, you see the desk:
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Wow, Lump. You should get extra-credit for taking the exam in the dark.
He should get even more credit, since, of course, his water supply was dangerously low.
ReplyDeleteThere's a twist on a Jewish mother joke here - How many Aryehs does it take to change a lightbulb?
ReplyDeletewow thats a really great post. I like all the views we can have of the scene,
ReplyDeleteMommy - I would've thought the Jewish mother joke would have been along the lines of, "It's OK, I'll take the exam in the dark..."
ReplyDeleteLet's see. How many more Jewish mothers joke we can make out of this post?
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ReplyDeleteEli, that is the punchline to How many Aryehs does it take to change a lightbulb.
ReplyDeleteOh whoops, my bad.
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