My First Blanked-answer-sheet
Friday, February 22, 2008
It was funny. >_<
I was in the lecture hall, attending the EHM3066 subject called “Engineer and Society”. Many, hmmm, not many, I believe that it was “all” of us wondering what would be the purpose for having such stupiak subject.
If a research was to be carried out for this subject, I think the hypothesis would be “The purpose to introduce the subject was to produce student with what what good ethics… blah blah blah..”, then the conclusion would be “It was a resource wasting activity”, and the recommendation that I think that will get 100% votes from all students would be “ Remove the course from the course list”.
But I guess I had been mess up with all the formats for each branch research content, sorry uh, I didn’t really pay my full attenetion on tech. comm., furthermore I have got severe STM syndromes. =x
Hmmm.. for those who do not know, or had been blur for such a long time, or having STM like me, I was born in year 1985, considered as a senior citizen in audi population, and currently in the third year of engineering course in MMU, which is more known as Money Making University, with a lot rules and regulations there which barely got anyone who knows what were those for. For those who really interested in the term MMU, do feel free to search online or ask me to send u the official link. (can’t post it here, later tio caught jiu die kao kao le.. >_<) And no, please don’t say me pro for doing that seems-so-great course. I was just a half-pail-water girl who try to tipu makan there.
Ok, back to the topic. The grading policy was in-class quizzes contribute a total of 10% of our final results, and it became the only reason the lecture hall was full of students. (It is an abnormal situation if a lecture hall with capacity around 500 seats to be all or almost all filled with human, as the normal rate of utilization was, ermm, 10%.)
It was the quiz session again, and we are ready to copy the notes again. However, my luck is bad enough that my printer sot jor (yea, f**k the the noob Ca**n printer) that I wasn’t able to print any new notes, and also I forgot to bring the previous one that I printed out. So I was just sitting there, see if I can get the notes or answer from my friend to copy. Else I would just go for the next lecture session for another group, since the title will be the same.
The unusual thing was, the lecturer keep emphasizing that those who get caught for copying will be given zero, and said something about the integrity test. I even kept the A4 paper written with my name into the plastic folder and waiting for the class to end. Then she walked up and looked at us while she passing the attendance sheet to us. I got no choice but to take out the name-written paper and place it on my table, pretending I was doing the quiz.
Near to the end, she played a psychological game with us. She said : “ I saw many of you are copying and it will be a zero if I caught you. Here’s the deal, for those who did not cheat and do it by themselves, you may bring it forward and hand it in. For the others, you may choose to either hand in and get caught, or you keep it with you and write an explanation on the reason you cheat, then I may consider to give you either zero or 2. ( there are 5 quizzes, 2 marks each)
I showed my paper to my friends and we laughed. It was BLANK, as my initial plan was not to hand in during this session. Then I was told the quiz title for the next session will be different. It was too late for me to write anything, and it was a stupid act to write the “explanation”.
So I brought the blank paper to the lecturer and ask if I can hand in the blank ones. She accepted, any there goes the first-blanked-answer-sheet of my life. Friends were surprised when I told them about this, and they say I will not get zero, but 1 mark for my honesty. LMAO.. now I know my name and ID number written on a paper worth 1 mark..
In the memories of my first blank answer sheet.. ROFL >_<
