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“Don\u2019t think of it as a final<\/em>,\u201d were Professor Walt Neilson\u2019s first words to his class Tuesday morning. \u201cThe term \u2018final\u2019 characterizes tomorrow\u2019s exam as some kind of be-all-end-all-doomsday-apocalypse that it simply isn\u2019t,\u201d the unashamed professor said to his half-asleep class. \u201cApproach your exams tomorrow with the optimism and hopefulness you would any new challenge. Dive into them with the spirit and joy you\u2019d have for a, I don\u2019t know, football match.\u201d<\/p>\n Neilson\u2019s words went largely unappreciated by the sleepy class of forty-two, all eager to return to their rooms for a long-awaited afternoon nap. When asked about that part of the lecture, second year Maggie Collins shrugged. \u201cI don\u2019t know. I kinda thought I was prepared before. Now I\u2019m not so sure.\u201d Other reactions were lukewarm at best. Third-year Jonathan Alper, asked whether he was inspired by the professor\u2019s words, replied, \u201cYou know that head bob thing? Where your eyes start to close and then you suddenly jerk your head up and remember where you are and it happens over and over? So yeah, pretty much.\u201d Other students present for Neilson\u2019s pre-test lecture reported that he used the phrases \u201clearning experience\u201d, \u201cdiagnostic opportunity\u201d, and \u201cevaluative class-onomics\u201d when describing the exam to be administered the next day.<\/p>\n Said an anonymous student who enrolled in Neilson’s course last year, \u201che does that every quarter. He gets all Zen on you and he\u2019s like, \u2018It\u2019s not a test, it\u2019s a feeling,\u2019 or whatever, and then your grades come back and you get a B-minus\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Evan Bernstein Nov. 9, 2013 “Don\u2019t think of it as a final,\u201d were Professor Walt Neilson\u2019s first words to his class Tuesday morning. \u201cThe term \u2018final\u2019 characterizes tomorrow\u2019s exam as some kind of be-all-end-all-doomsday-apocalypse that it simply isn\u2019t,\u201d the unashamed professor said to his half-asleep class. \u201cApproach your exams tomorrow with the optimism and hopefulness you would any new challenge. Dive into them with the spirit and joy you\u2019d have for a, I don\u2019t know, football match.\u201d Neilson\u2019s words went largely unappreciated by the sleepy class of forty-two, all eager to return to their rooms for a long-awaited afternoon nap. When asked about that part of the lecture, second year Maggie Collins shrugged. \u201cI don\u2019t know. I kinda thought I was prepared before. Now I\u2019m not so sure.\u201d Other reactions were lukewarm at best. Third-year Jonathan Alper, asked whether he was inspired by the professor\u2019s words, replied, \u201cYou know that head bob thing? Where your eyes start to close and then you suddenly jerk your head up and remember where you are and it happens over and over? So yeah, pretty much.\u201d Other students present for Neilson\u2019s pre-test lecture reported that he used the phrases \u201clearning experience\u201d, \u201cdiagnostic opportunity\u201d, and \u201cevaluative class-onomics\u201d when describing the exam to be administered the next day. Said an anonymous student who enrolled in Neilson’s course last year, \u201che does that every quarter. He gets all Zen on you and he\u2019s like, \u2018It\u2019s not a test, it\u2019s a feeling,\u2019 or whatever, and then your grades come back and you get a B-minus\u2019.\u201d .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}