[1860] in Humor
HUMOR CLASSIC: The Final
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 30 21:32:55 1997
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:23:27 EST
From: amarkina@MIT.EDU (Aleksandra Markina )
From: Benjamin Bunnell <bunnell@cco.caltech.edu>
From: "Timothy A. Gleason" <tim@albert.us.dg.com>
From: Maureen O'Hara <maureeno@microsoft.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:24:34 -0800
This past fall semester, at Gerogia Tech 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 drive down to the University of Florida 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 Tech
until early Monday morning. Rather than taking the final then, what they
did was to find Professor Caffese after the final and explain to him why
they missed the final.
They told him that they had driven down to FL 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 the donut spare was flat. Unfortunately, they couldn't
get help for a long time and so were late getting back to campus.
Professor Caffese 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 hard that night and went in the next day at the time
that Professor Caffese had told them. He placed them in SEPARATE rooms
and handed each of them a blue 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 that next page.
It simply said:
(95 points) Which tire?
