In the afternoon my colleague came and showed me a printout of an email he had recieved, sent by the univeristy at 12.20 (ten minutes before the end of the exam) with the text of the missing question 5 pasted into it. Hah! What do they expect us to do with that!?

In a staff meeting lately one of my colleagues and I were complaining of boredom with that same univeristy. (we were also beored of the meeting) I wrote on a sheet of paper something long and highly profound about how boredom is a personal reaction to circumstances not caused by external influences, blah blah blah, and passed it to my colleague (who shal remain nameless as my students read this). The colleague wrote on it and pased it back to me…

**Fuck them!** — it said. :O

Or does saying that show that Im living in the past?

Question 5 we left. The university will have to make some allowances I think.

But the worst case was the Unix II exam that we had yesterday morning. I cant evn begin to catalogue the attrocities it contained. For a start more than half the questions were on the subjects of backing up data, backup tools, backup policies, etc. Then there were questions asking for the explanation of commands that don’t exist. And there were no solutions for some questions (we checked the solutions to see if there were clues about what the questions should say. these solutions, I shouild add, are photocopies of handwritten sheets that have been crossed out and scribbled on …) the list goes on… questions about MSDOS… you name it, a catalogue of examination malpractise.

The students did well though, Ive looked at their papers and they have managed very well to make senstible guesses about the questions thaty hadn’t a clue about. I’m proud of them for that because I have ben trying all term to get them to make good guesses and come up with their own ideas.

Bloody glad term’s over though.