<p>My last semester in college, I had one econ final left for my major. It was a 9:30 exam. I come strolling in the class maybe 5 minutes late and there are only about 10 people sitting there with their tests. I walk up to the prof to ask for my test and he says with a serious expression, "You have missed the exam, it started at 8:00." I look around at the people at their desks and they are all kind of smirking. I guess the look on my face (and the fact that I felt like bursting into tears) caused them to break up. Everybody is laughing and I am feeling AWFUL. My worst nightmare come to pass. The prof then says, "Just kidding, I decided to make the test optional. If you are happy with your grade now, don't take the exam." I can still remember my jubilation! I walked out of that class knowing that college was DONE for me! </p>
<p>In hindsight, it was really pretty cruel of the prof to pull that, and I had spent the whole night studying for the stupid test!</p>
<p>I was taking one exam a few weeks ago, and there was this homeless person asking for money on the sidewalk outside the building, but he was singing Motown. We were a few floors up, but we could hear his singing clearly, and he didn't sing well. It was really distracting.</p>
<p>For my Western Civ final the kid next to me fell asleep. It was distracting and made me laugh each time I looked at him. Not even my vociferous guffawing woke him.</p>
<p>This semester, I had four friends sleep through exams. Luckily, most of our profs are pretty accomodating...but thats so stressful.</p>
<p>Also, my first microeconomics test of the semester. Get back grades, where I have a 34/60...so I freak out, as would be expected. Turns out, that was above the median (and the fourth highest grade in the class, with the highester being a 39). Wish the professor had mentioned that BEFORE handing them out.</p>
<p>Unfortunately...or, now that I think about it, fortunately I am not in college yet and therefore have no exam stories to call my own. My dad told me a good one once. He was taking a philosophy class final in his sophomore year, and the exam was in a huge lecture hall with over a hundred people. The professor wrote "1. Why?" on the board...and said "you may begin." People started writing page after page of what I assume could be nothing but BS. About 30 seconds into the exam, however, this one guy walks to the front of the room and hands his test in and proceeds to walk out. </p>
<p>My dad later found out that his paper said "1. Because." Supposedly the professor flunked the dude...but damn that takes balls.</p>
<p>i';ve got plenty of exam stories. for example i had a final exam in my one ifs course and my prof forgot about it. he thought it was at 4 and it was at 1:30. we waited an hour before contacting someone to check on him (he had cancer and we were worried that something happened.. turned out he was sitting at home watching tv because he mixed up his exam schedule. the guy ended up dying about two months later)</p>
<p>i have another one where i had a final at around 930 and i woke up at 1015. by the time i got there there was only about two people left taking the exam. i'm a pretty quick tester though, so i finished only a little bit after the remaining two people.</p>
<p>I worked as a computer tech at my universitys library last semester. I was sitting at my station browsing collegehumor when all of a sudden 3 computer screens went blank. A student rushes towards me yelling and screaming. He was really ****ed. He had been typing for over 3 1/2 hours this morning and had just lost his 50 page term paper. The computers at my school are deep frozen which means that the computer has a frozen image that is loaded everytime the computer starts, so you can mess the computer up as much as you want but it will all be restored on restart. Well anyways he had saved his term paper to the desktop and upon restart of course it wasn't there and there was no way to recover it. It turns out the girl across from him had knocked the power cord out of its socket on accident, let just say I had an exciting library shift that day.</p>