"Go, my people, enter your rooms
and shut the doors behind you;
hide yourselves for a little while
until his wrath has passed by."
- Isaiah 26:20
Test today in Economics 6351. Sure, the prof calls it a "quiz", but it's an hour long and covers four chapters. I have been studying and reviewing, but still admit to some apprehension.
Sheesh, if I'm this worked up over the first test, the Mid-Term could kill me!
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I remember when I went back to grad school after about ten years in industry.
The night after every test, I would have a nightmare about getting a zero on the test. In those dreams my answers were wrong. Not just wrong, but laughably wrong. I'd aways wake up at the point where I discovered I had gotten a ten and the median score was 95. Of course, when I would go to the next class -- in the real, rather than the dream world, I had aced the test.
Then came a class where the professor gave the test in the first hour of class, and then -- after we turned it in -- gave us the answers (and why they were the answers). I really liked that approach (and used it when I taught) because when I got the right answers the following week, I could never figure out *why* I had chosen it. The immediate feedback meant I would correct the erroneous concepts immediately. (I knew why I had been *that* stupid.)
I remember going home after the first such test, and thinking "Well, I KNOW I got an "A" on THAT one. No nightmare tonight.
Wrong.
Instead the dream was that I had marked answer number "1" in the number "2" slot, and so on down the page -- and tanked the test. (In the real world I did not, of course.)
That subconscious will getcha every time.
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