OMG unconscious, how could you?
I think this falls into the category of being an embarassingly archetypal dream. I have an exam this evening, and this morning I dreamt that I turned up for the exam and it was only one page (despite it being 90 minutes of multichoice and short answer). After turning it over a few times I realised that I knew some of the answers, so I set to work. The person next to me whispered something to me* but I tried to ignore her because I didn't want to look like I was cheating. Anyway, it seemed about 10 minutes later that people started handing in their papers, and I was only about a third of the way through. *Panic*. I turned over the page and saw at the top of the sheet that the answers were printed there - I think this was what the girl next to me was trying to alert me to. In any case, I struggled valiantly to finish the exam without looking at the answers (WHY? What the hell is wrong with my dream self?) Finally, when I was near the end of the exam, I realised that the whole class had gone, and so had the lecturer. So I ran around the uni, trying to find her before the time the exam would have ended.
How about I now take a naked trip to the supermarket??
*The girl turning and whispering to me during the exam was very reminiscent of a real life experience I had while studying at TAFE: I was studying Child Development and Play (which forms part of the Child Care Certificate, but I did it while I was at school, without any intention of actually becoming a child care worker.) Before we started the course, the school gave us a big lecture about these being actual technical education subjects, and we were not to expect them to be easy or treat them like a bludge. How wrong they were! I can honestly say this was the least demanding academic pursuit I have ever taken on. The assessments were two class tests (neither of which I studied for; both of which I topped the class in) and an assignment (which I also topped the class in: I found out later that I had done three times as much work as was expected). Anyway, while we were completing the first test, the girl next to me whispered "What's an observation?" O.o I ignored her - as little as I really cared about doing well in the subject, the disgrace of cheating on a test (or helping another to cheat) sticks like shit to a blanket, and I didn't need any of that. Besides, how would you go about explaining what an observation was, in an inaudible whisper, at top speed in the middle of an exam, to someone who hadn't managed to pick up such an obvious thing the first time round?? (It wasn't as if we actually had to give a definition of an observation, we just had to make one!) These days, Craig occasionally whispers to me "What's an observation?" to indicate someone very, very clueless.
How about I now take a naked trip to the supermarket??
*The girl turning and whispering to me during the exam was very reminiscent of a real life experience I had while studying at TAFE: I was studying Child Development and Play (which forms part of the Child Care Certificate, but I did it while I was at school, without any intention of actually becoming a child care worker.) Before we started the course, the school gave us a big lecture about these being actual technical education subjects, and we were not to expect them to be easy or treat them like a bludge. How wrong they were! I can honestly say this was the least demanding academic pursuit I have ever taken on. The assessments were two class tests (neither of which I studied for; both of which I topped the class in) and an assignment (which I also topped the class in: I found out later that I had done three times as much work as was expected). Anyway, while we were completing the first test, the girl next to me whispered "What's an observation?" O.o I ignored her - as little as I really cared about doing well in the subject, the disgrace of cheating on a test (or helping another to cheat) sticks like shit to a blanket, and I didn't need any of that. Besides, how would you go about explaining what an observation was, in an inaudible whisper, at top speed in the middle of an exam, to someone who hadn't managed to pick up such an obvious thing the first time round?? (It wasn't as if we actually had to give a definition of an observation, we just had to make one!) These days, Craig occasionally whispers to me "What's an observation?" to indicate someone very, very clueless.