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Today was the start of my second genetics course, Molecular Genetics. I had forgotten that it was not in the same room (or the same building) as my first genetics course, so stupidly, I went to the wrong room. I arrive about ten minutes before class was due to start, and found it a bit odd that only three or four other students were there. I called my friend S who was taking the course with me (A, who was in Mendelian Genetics with me, is taking Molecular Genetics in the winter term), and she told me that I was in the wrong room! Another student who overheard my conversation said, "Oh yeah, I had forgotten that this lecture is in BIOL 2000!" So we all went over to the correct room and building, and we arrived in plenty of time before the "lecture" started (all the teacher did was give a brief intro--Hi, here is the outline, the tests are on such-and-such a date, read chapter 5--which lasted 15 minutes).
I felt silly for going to the wrong room, but it turned out to be a good thing that I did. On Friday June 5, I had a Mendelian Genetics midterm. I took out my school ID in case my teacher was checking IDs, and also so I could confirm my student number, which I needed to write on my exam. During the exam, I placed my ID and my extra pens and pencils on the small, fold-out desk of the seat next to me, but I must have knocked it off as I was getting up to hand in my exam or while I was collecting all my pens, as I recall seeing my ID after I finished my exam, but apparently, I never put it back in my wallet, because of out sight, out of mind. I discovered that it was missing after I left the exam, while sorting through my purse, but I wasn't too worried, as it is of no value to anyone else, and it's not something that I desperately needed (had it been my U-Pass, I would have been freaking out!).
So on Monday, before lecture, I went to both the lost and found and the carding office to see if anyone had handed it in. No on had, nor was it lying on the floor near my seat or propped up on the chalkboard ledges on the side of the room, which is where people tend to leave found IDs and U-Passes. I thought that perhaps my teacher had found it or that someone had given it to him, but he never mentioned having my ID. If you lose something and someone finds it, there are three possibilities: the person hands it in to the lost and found; the person leaves it where it is; or the person steals it. It wasn't the first two situations, so I figured that it must have been stolen (if you take something that is not yours and do not hand it in, that's stealing), but why would anyone steal my ID? (But then again, why would anyone steal a pre-calculus text book?)
Because I didn't need my student ID except if the teacher wanted to check it during an exam (which I knew my genetics teacher wasn't going to do for the final, and if he did, I could show my BC ID), and because I didn't want to pay the replacement fee, I figured that I would get a new one in the fall, if my ID didn't turn up before then. When I went to the wrong room this morning, on the top of the desk where the teacher lectures, I saw a couple of student IDs. I went to check, and sure enough, one of them was mine! So if I hadn't gone to the wrong class, I would never have found it. But what I don't understand is: why didn't the person who found it hand it in to the lost and found or the carding office? And why didn't my teacher hand it to me or make an announcement at the beginning of a lecture that there were IDs on the desk? Of course the IDs could have belonged to students from other classes, but he knows me! Oh well, in the end I got my ID back and didn't have to pay to replace it.
I felt silly for going to the wrong room, but it turned out to be a good thing that I did. On Friday June 5, I had a Mendelian Genetics midterm. I took out my school ID in case my teacher was checking IDs, and also so I could confirm my student number, which I needed to write on my exam. During the exam, I placed my ID and my extra pens and pencils on the small, fold-out desk of the seat next to me, but I must have knocked it off as I was getting up to hand in my exam or while I was collecting all my pens, as I recall seeing my ID after I finished my exam, but apparently, I never put it back in my wallet, because of out sight, out of mind. I discovered that it was missing after I left the exam, while sorting through my purse, but I wasn't too worried, as it is of no value to anyone else, and it's not something that I desperately needed (had it been my U-Pass, I would have been freaking out!).
So on Monday, before lecture, I went to both the lost and found and the carding office to see if anyone had handed it in. No on had, nor was it lying on the floor near my seat or propped up on the chalkboard ledges on the side of the room, which is where people tend to leave found IDs and U-Passes. I thought that perhaps my teacher had found it or that someone had given it to him, but he never mentioned having my ID. If you lose something and someone finds it, there are three possibilities: the person hands it in to the lost and found; the person leaves it where it is; or the person steals it. It wasn't the first two situations, so I figured that it must have been stolen (if you take something that is not yours and do not hand it in, that's stealing), but why would anyone steal my ID? (But then again, why would anyone steal a pre-calculus text book?)
Because I didn't need my student ID except if the teacher wanted to check it during an exam (which I knew my genetics teacher wasn't going to do for the final, and if he did, I could show my BC ID), and because I didn't want to pay the replacement fee, I figured that I would get a new one in the fall, if my ID didn't turn up before then. When I went to the wrong room this morning, on the top of the desk where the teacher lectures, I saw a couple of student IDs. I went to check, and sure enough, one of them was mine! So if I hadn't gone to the wrong class, I would never have found it. But what I don't understand is: why didn't the person who found it hand it in to the lost and found or the carding office? And why didn't my teacher hand it to me or make an announcement at the beginning of a lecture that there were IDs on the desk? Of course the IDs could have belonged to students from other classes, but he knows me! Oh well, in the end I got my ID back and didn't have to pay to replace it.