Formal Languages Exam
Today I took my first exam: Formal Languages and Automata Theory. There were a few interesting points
- I made it to the exam on time (the first time I haven't been fashionably late). The professor, however, was 20 minutes late.
- As soon as we started working on the exam, the lawn mower started outside. It was frighteningly perfect in its timing. It did nothing to help my sleep-deprived brain focus on the test.
- As the professor was preparing to pass out the exam, he noticed another student wearing a shirt identical to his. He complimented the student on the shirt and asked "Are we wearing the same shirt?" The student furled his brow, thought for a second, and replied "No, I am fairly certain that you are wearing your own shirt. If we were wearing the same shirt, things would be really weird and creepy."
- The professor then responded "Only CS students would be trained to be so picky about clarification and ambiguity that they would read the question that way."