My husband and I were getting subs for dinner the other night and we saw that they had a senior discount. In some primitive societies where people only live to be 120, we might be considered middle-aged. While he arranged for our discount and paid the bill I hung out at the Coke machine trying to determine the ultimate ratio of ice to Diet Coke. It was the evening of the first day of classes so I was really exhausted and half asleep when my husband turned to me and said, “They need proof”. I assumed they meant proof of life and were accusing my husband of dragging me along for old times’ sake a la Weekend at Bernie’s so I waved and did a little dance to let them know I was alive in spite of how I looked. My husband and the cashier stared at me and my husband clarified that they needed proof that I was 55 so we could get the senior discount. Suddenly I was reborn and literally did cartwheels to the cash register to show my ID.
And the point is …. Well, actually I have no point. I just wanted everyone to know that a cashier at a sub shop didn’t believe I was 55 and the joy of that moment will carry me in a cloud of disillusionment for decades to come. It doesn’t take much.
It also doesn’t take much (I found my point!) to fill out the faculty survey form to request a final exam. We will be closing the faculty survey input form Friday, January 31 after work hours. Once this is closed we start transferring the information to all the files and reports we use to create final exams and assign classrooms. (I’m using the royal ‘we’ here just in case someone has bad memories of final exam assignments and might hopefully assume someone other than yours truly did it.)
Requests that come in via email after January 31 will have to be processed manually. Let’s just say that if it were easy to process them manually we wouldn’t have about 10 different programs and files to create the final exams. The easiest and safest place to put late requests is in the Saturday time slot. That way we can be sure the students don’t have conflicts, which is the main thrust of all the fancy scheduling programs and files.
So, for the sake of the students and the poor slob who has to do the final exam scheduling, please submit your final exam requests by or before Friday, January 31.
Deborah Benjamin
Registration and Records
01/28/2014 |