Thursday, February 16, 2012

Dear Fellow Students

You always make this same stupid mistake. We were supposed to have a test next week, but of course you didn't want to take a test. So when given the option of moving it until after vacation, you demanded that it indeed be moved instead of just leaving it when it was scheduled for. In theory, this has it's benefits, and I'm sure a small portion of you will actually get extra studying in over vacation and do better than you would have if it was next week.

But what about the rest of you? I know exactly what's going to happen. You're going to happily not study now, because the test is now so far into the future. Then, when we get back to school after vacation, you'll scramble to study in the day or two before the test, studying no more than you would have before vacation if the test hadn't been moved. The result will be that you didn't get in any extra studying, and by postponing it three weeks you've now had time to forget things from when you learned them, so if anything you'll do worse. Postponing a test a couple days can be helpful, postponing it till after a two week vacation is not. Either way, I plan on acing this test anyways.

Enjoy worrying about the test all vacation when you could be relaxing.
-SF

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