Not Sure if Trolling

[harp]

This is another Death!School entry. Since there's no more "did I pass?!" anxiety, I wanted to tell you about my embalming final. We can all have a laugh about it.

As you know, Embalming is the most important class I have, since I don't want to own my own funeral home. So of course, I studied like crazy for this final. Our teacher's one of those jovial-yet-eccentric types- imagine Ralph Kramden in a good, confident mood and if he ran a funeral home. Let me tell you about this final exam he gave us. I am not exaggerating or kidding about any of this.

We start off "easy" with a question any teacher would give to make sure someone is paying attention. What is the standard rate of pressure for a normal embalming case?
Two answers with the number 16 in them. One says "pounds per hour", though, when it should be "pounds per minute".

But then we get into stuff like this-

Question: What is the tool used for raising an artery or vein?
The answer is "an aneurysm hook". These were the answers we had to choose from:
a. Anuerysm hook
b. Anyuresm hook
c. Aneurysm hook
d. Anurysm hook

If you didn't look away, go to a separate page, and write "aneurysm" the way you knew how to spell it, you could get pretty confused. Especially considering there were other little typos in the exam.

Here's what's so scary about typos + questions like that.

We learned the term "Agonal algor", which is a pre-death drop in temperature. On the final exam, we were faced with this question in the true/false section:

True/False: Algonal Algor is a pre-death drop in temperature

... Did he mean to write it that way? We know it's "Agonal Algor", and it's easy to see how he could've slipped, but... if we write "true" is he gonna think we think it's "algonal"? If we write false, is he going to know it's because of the typo? And he wasn't even in the room giving us our final, so we couldn't ask. To complicate things further, right at the start of the exam, our proctors told us "For the embalming final, mark down D for question 65" so maybe he checked it for errors and maybe...

Every time I take one of his tests, I feel like if I look up at him, he'll somehow have trollface superimposed over his head and he'll be wearing a shirt that says "problem?"

Comments

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

Oh, jeez.
Had a prof in Cultural Anthropology. Friendly guy, jolly, played in a blues band. Told stories in class-real casual, right?
Graded like a sumbich. Scared me away from the one or two classes I actually would have enjoyed taking from him (or so I heard) because of it.

That's some A+ Trollin'!

[sugar-for-sugar.livejournal.com]

oh damn, that question basically making sure you can recognize the proper spelling of aneurysm... someone must get sick of seeing lots of creative "alternate" spellings!

Because it is ALL about me.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

Of course, had a Geography prof; woman, stern, alarming rep. (Usually from guys, let me add- "She's a nasty B____", that sort of thing) I did great in her class. ? I mean, "Hey, guys, did you DO the WORK?"

Re: That's some A+ Trollin'!

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

Annyoorizim.

[harpsi-fizz.livejournal.com]

How does one grade like a... like that?

[mimi-monsterr.livejournal.com]

firstly,congratulations for passing! I knew you wouldn't have a problem.
And that sounds insane :/ I think if it was me I'd end up putting little corrections in the margin or something to make sure I didn't lose the mark, and then worry about it constantly, haha.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

VERY rigorously. Beyond the rigorousness event horizon. As in, "You know that thing I mentioned casually in that one lecture? Yeah. Twenty Points."

[boytristancole.livejournal.com]

Could you make a note on the test paper, like "if you meant Agonal, then true, but if this is another spell check question, then aha, I'm paying attention, see, and the answer is false."

But there's that evil expression "paying attention". You're good at it.

Congrats on doing school.