Shooting Spree, Here I Come

[shamela]

The set-up:
First exam for Gothic Lit. course. Items include Frankenstein (prose), Byron's "Lara" (poetry), Walpole's Castle of Otranto (also prose), and some Radcliffe (I know you know those genres...but the emphasis becomes important shortly

Comments

[imahobbit2]

snort.... chuckle... and guffaw....
its like pearls before pigs some days isn't it.

Did Google die or something?

[damedroiture]

snort!

Re: Did Google die or something?

[shamela]

I know, right?

I guess what tripped them up was that it wasn't open laptop.

[anonymous]

I read this post late yesterday, then last night dreamed I had two classes with exams at the same time -- one was from you -- and I missed *both* of them trying to run between and take two finals at once.

Probably some residual guilt caused that, but I like to blame this blog post, since I'm sure I did something similar in a class from you. :)

--chelsey

[lady_frolick]

One semester I had to give three consecutive reading quizzes on "Barn Burning" because the class continued not to read it. I was so pissed about it that I designed my final so that every question compared a work on the syllabus to a different aspect of "Barn Burning." Not so easy, actually, but I was determined.