Four-Test Week!

So this week I had four tests. An economics test on Monday, art history and accounting tests on Tuesday, and a Differential Equations test on Thursday (today!).

I think they've all gone pretty well. My econ and art history professor both post extensive study guides online, so studying for those tests is pretty straightforward. And, although we don't get a study guide for accounting, the homework is a pretty good estimate of what will be on the test, so that's not bad, either.

The test I was most worried about was DE. I was going to start studying really early so that I could be sure to be prepared for the test. And last week Tuesday, my DE professor said he'd post our sample exam before he left campus. Well, it still wasn't up by class time on the following Thursday, and he again promised to post the sample exam before leaving campus. So on Saturday, I figured I'd better get a head start on studying for the DE test, and I went online to print out the study guide that was supposedly posted before my professor left campus on Tuesday and Thursday and it still wasn't there!

Finally, he put it online sometime on Monday. But then there was no answer key posted, so it was impossible to know if you got anything right! I mentioned this to the professor at our class this past Tuesday, and he promised to post the answer key to the sample exam before he left campus that day. And, gullible dolt that I was, I believed him. I kept checking online for him to post the answer key, and it was never posted on Tuesday.

I've been considering this mystery behind how my professor could post something "before I leave campus today," and yet not have it posted until several days later, and I think I've figured it out. I bet he lives on campus. Maybe he's homeless and he keeps all his stuff in his office. Then he can promise to post things before he leaves campus as much as he wants and not ever post them, and his promise is still good because he never leaves campus! Except he's often not in his office during his office hours and cancels them at the last minute. If he really did live in his office, he would definitely be there when he's supposed to have office hours. Hmm...

Anyway, I met him in his office yesterday at 1:00 PM (yes, he was there!) and had him help me with a few of the problems and check my work on some of the other ones. Apparently, he'd finally gotten around to posting the answer key to the practice test around noon yesterday (the day before the actual test). So, as much as I wanted to get "a head start" on studying, the only time I was actually able to do much studying was yesterday. Still, the test went really well, and I'm pretty sure I got an A, although with DE you never know...