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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:21:18 -0500 (EST)
From: James Lee Dugan SJ <[log in to unmask]>
To: Chester M Worwa <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: James Lee Dugan SJ <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Joke or true story?!



From:
Subject:        final exam


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><< This past fall semester, at Duke University, there were two sophomores
who were taking Organic Chemistry and who did pretty well on all of the
quizzes and the midterms and labs, etc., such that going into the final
they had a
> solid 'A'. These two friends were so confident going into the final
that
> the weekend before finals week, even though the Chem. final was on
Monday,
> they decided to go up to University of Virginia and party with some
friends
> up there.
>
> So they did this and had a great time. However, with their hangovers
> and everything, they overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it back
> to Duke until early Monday morning.  Rather than taking the final then,
> what they did was to find Professor Aldric after the final and explain
> to him why they missed the final.
>
> They told him that they went up to UVA for the weekend, and had planned
to
> come back in time to study, but that they had a flat tire on the way
back
> and didn't have a spare and couldn't get help for a long time and so
were
> late getting back to campus. Aldric thought this over and then agreed
that
> they could make up the final on the following day.
>
> The two guys were elated and relieved. So, they studied that night
> and went in the next day at the time that Aldric had told them. He
> placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a test
> booklet and told them to begin. They looked at the first problem,
> which was something simple about free radical formation and was
> worth 5 points. "Cool" they thought, "this is going to be easy."
> They did that problem and then turned the page. They were
> unprepared, however, for what they saw on the next page.
>
> It said: (95 points) Which tire? >>