Examination Time

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Interesting article on cheating methods in college, and how colleges have evolved to try to catch the cheaters--I read it with something of a professional interest, since I now proctor exams at Columbia. The whole proctor training session at CU was a paradigm shift for me, since both my undergrad colleges (Mount Holyoke and Sweet Briar) had honor codes, and hence unproctored, unscheduled exams. At CU the proctor has to be aware of how many times a student leaves to use the bathroom--they're allowed two, maybe three, visits. Man, my junior year I left my hardest exam (advanced music theory) for the last exam period--I'd brought home a bunch of books from the library to go over stuff but when I walked in, my roommate was having a mini-party, and then my Mom called. One thing led to another and I did not crack those books once--I drank quite a bit of peppermint schnappes and then woke up the next morning right before the exam. I ran down to the center and sat down, and for the next three hours I alternated between scribbling out complicated analyses of Mozart, Bach and Haydn in blue books with impromptu bolts for the bathroom. (I got an A, by the way :) But you can see how this would've been suspicious at Columbia! Mem'rieeees....I haven't been able to stomach the taste of peppermint schnappes since ;)