Fun With Midterms!

Ok, so today I took my American Heritage midterm. Basically what happened was I got home from my classes at 11, I got done with my running/showering/lunching by 1 and then I tried to force myself to study and I did pretty well. As Kelli figured out, studying really well involves drinking massive amounts of water, then, you get bathroom breaks and you can't feel bad about breaking for that. Well so I studied. At one point I thought that maybe if I did some of my reading for my Book of Mormon class, I would get extra points and do better on my test.

Then the time came when I realized that, though I hadn't planned to take my test until 5, studying any more really wouldn't have been helpful, I would have been going over stuff that I already know and wasting time just reading my textbook, hoping to find something useful. So I put on my new boots and my happy jacket and went over to the testing center where I decided that going to the bathroom before hand would probably be a good idea (remember the water) and all I have to say is that that bathroom smelled like rotten fish!

Lemme describe the testing center to you all. You go up this massive staircase and get to this level that has carpeting marking where the lines should go. If you show up on like the last day of finals, its packed with many people who probably spill out onto the staircase. Lucky for me, I am an overachiever and took my test on the first day it was offered (but really, midterms are different times for different classes, so it's not like finals week where everyone is testing at one time). There were like two or three people in each of the lines. The lines lead through the doors where you go to the counter, hand over your id card and they ask what test you want to take. They then give you the test and basic instructions ('no calculator allowed on this not-math test') and then you go down the counter and pick up your personalized scantron in its indimidating red color. Then you go into a ballroom-sized room with rows and rows of desks. You pick your desk and go.

Now the fun part. So the multiple choice starts off with the lovely 'here is 12 names and 5 quotes, match them up' not once but twice. Then it was a regular MC test. The written section was actually fun. I knew enough about each of the answers that I wasn't stressed about it. I said things like "Modern liberty, as described by Benjamin Constant, is the idea that you can do whatever you want. For example, if you wanted to go to college and go on to invent the first microwave freezer, you could. Or if you wanted to sit around eating lasagna all day, you could do that too...the problem is that then you might end up with a society full of fat lasagna eaters and no microwave freezers." Now, I actually think that the TA or Professor, whoever ends up grading my test will rather enjoy these little bits, and when grading some 150 papers, that has to be a happy moment and happy moments lead to happy grades. I'm not kidding, I was like almost laughing as I was writing some of these answers. I hope they hand back the tests so I can enjoy that forever.