Almost missed a test

[Sumguy]

The semester officially ends tomorrow (well...plus one week of finals, but no more lectures!) and, of course, all of my classes decided that today was a good day to turn in everything. I've basically been awake for over 32 hours (can't rightly remember when I woke up).

Well, for some reason I thought the last test for my microprocessors class was going to be on Thursday. Just as I was walking back to my car to drive back home and sleep, I happen to see my friend drive by. I get a call and the conversation goes something like this:

Her: Hey! What are you doing?
Me: Going home.
Her: Oh...ok...
Me: ...what? I haven't slept yet.
Her: Don't you have a test in two hours?
Me: Nah, one tomorrow and the next day. Gonna nap and study for them later.
Her: No its definitely today (her roommate has class with me)
Me: You're fucking with me :awe:
Her: No, I'm pretty sure you've fucked up.
Me: D: Shit

I call her roommate...yup. Test in two hours. Realistically, for what I needed to gather up, I had an hour to print out shit.

Worst feeling ever, surpassed maybe by the feeling I would have had if I slept through it.

Thankfully the test was open notes. Spent the first 20 minutes of the exam basically teaching myself serial communications, DAC and DCA conversions on the fly, then rushing through some assembly.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Know what's the worst feeling ever? Opening up a syllabus to figure out when a test is, and seeing that it was YESTERDAY. I was about to throw myself out a window when I realized it meant next month.

 

[IronWing]

My alma mater had this system where finals were not necessarily held in the normal classroom or building. You could attend class in the same room all semester but the final might be across campus. There I was bright and early for a final and then had a sinking feeling when no other students showed up. It occurred to me that I was ten minutes away from exam time on a campus of 45,000 students and I had absolutely no clue where the exam was being held. Thank god for the student resource center that kept a master list. I was about a half hour late but the final was easy so I aced it anyway.

 

[gorcorps]

idiots, the lot of you

that is all

 

[IronWing]

idiots, the lot of you

that is all

You ain't heard nothing yet. There was the time I arrived at the airport only to be told at the ticket counter that the plane had already departed. I pointed to my ticket and said "The plane isn't supposed to leave until then". To which the helpful counter person countered by stating that the time I was highlighting was the arrival time at my destination and then pointed to the big, bold numbers just above that. I took me an extra eight hours of sitting around various airports to reach my destination.

 

[Matthiasa]

Ah I've nearly done that before...
Hmm and that sounds like the test I have on friday.

 

[kinev]

I still have that recurring nightmare that I missed a test or I was registered for a class that I hadn't been going to all semester. I graduated a quite a while ago. Seems to be a common nightmare...

 

[moshquerade]

The semester officially ends tomorrow (well...plus one week of finals, but no more lectures!) and, of course, all of my classes decided that today was a good day to turn in everything. I've basically been awake for over 32 hours (can't rightly remember when I woke up).

Well, for some reason I thought the last test for my microprocessors class was going to be on Thursday. Just as I was walking back to my car to drive back home and sleep, I happen to see my friend drive by. I get a call and the conversation goes something like this:

Her: Hey! What are you doing?
Me: Going home.
Her: Oh...ok...
Me: ...what? I haven't slept yet.
Her: Don't you have a test in two hours?
Me: Nah, one tomorrow and the next day. Gonna nap and study for them later.
Her: No its definitely today (her roommate has class with me)
Me: You're fucking with me :awe:
Her: No, I'm pretty sure you've fucked up.
Me: D: Shit

I call her roommate...yup. Test in two hours. Realistically, for what I needed to gather up, I had an hour to print out shit.

Worst feeling ever, surpassed maybe by the feeling I would have had if I slept through it.

Thankfully the test was open notes. Spent the first 20 minutes of the exam basically teaching myself serial communications, DAC and DCA conversions on the fly, then rushing through some assembly.

You owe her a big thank you.

 

[coldmeat]

My alma mater had this system where finals were not necessarily held in the normal classroom or building. You could attend class in the same room all semester but the final might be across campus. There I was bright and early for a final and then had a sinking feeling when no other students showed up. It occurred to me that I was ten minutes away from exam time on a campus of 45,000 students and I had absolutely no clue where the exam was being held. Thank god for the student resource center that kept a master list. I was about a half hour late but the final was easy so I aced it anyway.

I'd say about 9/10 of my exams are held in different rooms/buildings than my classes.

 

[DrPizza]

I still have that recurring nightmare that I missed a test or I was registered for a class that I hadn't been going to all semester. I graduated a quite a while ago. Seems to be a common nightmare...

I came into this thread to post the same. It's the worst feeling in the world to wake up to - that "omg! I missed the exam!" And, I've been out of school (well, I teach now) for a long time.

 

[SKORPI0]

I still have that recurring nightmare that I missed a test or I was registered for a class that I hadn't been going to all semester. I graduated a quite a while ago. Seems to be a common nightmare...

I came into this thread to post the same. It's the worst feeling in the world to wake up to - that "omg! I missed the exam!" And, I've been out of school (well, I teach now) for a long time.

Same here, graduated early 80's and a few years back I had those nightmares, don't know why. I have dreams that I take the bus/car and go to school to attend my classes or go to work. After I go home, find out that my car was stolen. I wake up and it's in the driveway. :\

 

[moshquerade]

Same here, graduated early 80's and a few years back I had those nightmares, don't know why. I have dreams that I take the bus/car and go to school to attend my classes. :\

it's due to stress/anxiety.

 

[Jimmah]

I missed a mid term in machine programming once, missed the midterm for a networking class as well. Mild dyslexia makes me miss all sorts of stuff.

 

[TecHNooB]

A friend of mine actually slept through, not one, but TWO exams!

 

[Imp]

I did that in first year. Missed the exam, copied the wrong course code and schedule into my Excel spreadsheet. Had to petition to get my grade assessed after shitting myself for weeks. Paid their generosity back the following term by almost flunking out.

Almost did it again in my second year. Didn't feel like waking up, was going to skip class, but decided to go in 30 minutes late. Walked right into the middle of my midterm, which I didn't study for. I was doing so well that if I did study, I would have gotten an easy-A, ended up with a C. Not bad for no studying. Oh, and no formulas were provided, you were suppose to make your own aid sheet up. Had to work off memory.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

I still have that recurring nightmare that I missed a test or I was registered for a class that I hadn't been going to all semester. I graduated a quite a while ago. Seems to be a common nightmare...

God, i've had that a few times. Scary as shit cuz that is a vivid nightmare for me.

 

[apac]

I still have that recurring nightmare that I missed a test or I was registered for a class that I hadn't been going to all semester. I graduated a quite a while ago. Seems to be a common nightmare...

Yup I get that one every so often.

 

[TecHNooB]

I've gotten nightmares where I'll sit down for a test, the material will look completely alien to me, and then I'll start to panic. I think it's because I usually prepare very well for all my exams (in college).

 

[Imp]

I had the "almost missed an exam" or "forgot to hand in an assignment" nightmare for weeks after I finished my undergrad. Had to remind myself in the morning that I was no longer a student.

Now that I'm back, gonna be an interesting two years.

 

[Leros]

My alma mater had this system where finals were not necessarily held in the normal classroom or building. You could attend class in the same room all semester but the final might be across campus. There I was bright and early for a final and then had a sinking feeling when no other students showed up. It occurred to me that I was ten minutes away from exam time on a campus of 45,000 students and I had absolutely no clue where the exam was being held. Thank god for the student resource center that kept a master list. I was about a half hour late but the final was easy so I aced it anyway.

We have the same thing here.

Last semester for one of my exams, about 15 people in the class showed up in one room, but the other 15 or so people in the class (including the professor) were not there. We looked up the final exam schedules online and we all had the this room listed for the exam.

We called up an office at the school and found out that the class was split between two sections (one grad, one undergrad) and the two sections were scheduled in different rooms. We (the undergrads) ended up showing up for the exam about 40 minutes late, but the professor gave us extra time.

Luckily the system we use at my school usually ensures that a class that has lectures at XX time will all have their final at YY day/time, so the undergrad and grad sections were scheduled for the same day and time.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I just got my BS in Comp Sci several semesters ago, but I know that feeling of anxiety / horror all too well. Luckily, by the end I got in the habit of adding every important date into Google Calendar, and setting the calendar to send my phone a SMS text reminder. Even stupid things like "lunch with girlfriend" ended up on the calendar, just so I never end up looking like a jackass when I forget about something I agreed to.

If you haven't taken the time to do this yet, I highly suggest it. Then, you just need to discipline yourself to add the dates into the calendar IMMEDIATELY.

I'm sure some people will chip in saying that I should have no need for some sort of electronic nanny to tell me when and where I have to be, but in a world where I have to remember multiple names, faces, PINs, passwords, which clients I can joke with and which I have to be strictly down to business, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, programming languages and websites for best tips about tricks and syntax, etc., a little helpful reminder goes a long way.

 

[yhelothar]

It happened to me once. I had PTSD for a good two months afterwards. I'd wake up breaking a sweat thinking I missed my test.

It was actually for my wind ensemble class. The final was simple, just perform at the graduation. I thought the graduation was on Friday but it was actually on Thursday.
On thursday afternoon, I get a call at my work asking where I am and why I'm not at the performance.

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I was set on getting an A in that class so I'd get a high enough GPA/enough units to join the honors program so that I can transfer to a prestigious UC. Yeah I can see the butterfly effect quite clearly there.

 

[Modular]

I still have that recurring nightmare that I missed a test or I was registered for a class that I hadn't been going to all semester. I graduated a quite a while ago. Seems to be a common nightmare...

Weird! I have had similar nightmares where I don't graduate because I registered for a class that I wasn't going to all semester. Time to break out the Google and find out what the fuck is wrong with me!

 

[thepd7]

You ain't heard nothing yet. There was the time I arrived at the airport only to be told at the ticket counter that the plane had already departed. I pointed to my ticket and said "The plane isn't supposed to leave until then". To which the helpful counter person countered by stating that the time I was highlighting was the arrival time at my destination and then pointed to the big, bold numbers just above that. I took me an extra eight hours of sitting around various airports to reach my destination.

been there, except I was looking at the departure for my connecting flight.

 

[Aharami]

fuck I graduated 7 yrs ago, and I still have nightmares about missing tests and worse, showing up to a test unprepared!