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The final was sort of a mess today. Usually giving exams is pretty boring and this was for the first hour and then a bunch of things happened at once. It is in a full lecture hall with about 180 students. The three TAs (me, R. and A.) are giving the exam and the prof. is out of town. One of my students is very ill. She looks horrid and asked to sit next to the garbage can in the back in case she threw up. At one point she left the room (presumably to throw up.) Halfway through the exam (right after the slide portion, impressive she lasted that long) she says that she's going to pass out and needs to go to the medical center, but isn't sure she can walk. I say that I will drive her and interrupt the class to make an annoucement to drop off their tests and pick up their papers in case I am not there.
I try to tell R. what is happening, but she has just had one of her students (who is on honor board) turn in two of A.'s students who were sitting in front of her cheating. A. is MIA and R. doesn't really know what to do. Yet just as this moment one student comes in late and looks confused so she tells the cheaters to stay there while she deals with that student. One of them leaves without saying anything, but she gets his name. I'm trying to leave with the sick student and debating on whether I really need to run up to the 4th floor for my coat, or whether I can tough it out without one. Luckily leaving the building we run into the ill student's sorority sister who offers to take her to the medical center. I run upstairs to try to find A. to deal with her cheating students. Meanwhile there are still a bunch of kids with normal exam-type questions raising their hands (I need another bluebook, how much time?, can I write about this?). It calmed down, but it was not fun.
I'm the luckiest TA since I don't have to deal with the cheaters, nor R.'s crazy student. I emailed my sick student and told her that when she's better she can do the remaining part of the exam (an essay without images) as a take-home and just email it to me. She's a very conscientious student and spent a lot of time preparing for the exam and for goodness sake stuck it out while half-dead, so she deserves a break (plus I don't want to come in another day to give her a new exam.) The exam was at 8am so I got up at 6 and now I'm really tired. Blech. Glad it's the end of the term.
I try to tell R. what is happening, but she has just had one of her students (who is on honor board) turn in two of A.'s students who were sitting in front of her cheating. A. is MIA and R. doesn't really know what to do. Yet just as this moment one student comes in late and looks confused so she tells the cheaters to stay there while she deals with that student. One of them leaves without saying anything, but she gets his name. I'm trying to leave with the sick student and debating on whether I really need to run up to the 4th floor for my coat, or whether I can tough it out without one. Luckily leaving the building we run into the ill student's sorority sister who offers to take her to the medical center. I run upstairs to try to find A. to deal with her cheating students. Meanwhile there are still a bunch of kids with normal exam-type questions raising their hands (I need another bluebook, how much time?, can I write about this?). It calmed down, but it was not fun.
I'm the luckiest TA since I don't have to deal with the cheaters, nor R.'s crazy student. I emailed my sick student and told her that when she's better she can do the remaining part of the exam (an essay without images) as a take-home and just email it to me. She's a very conscientious student and spent a lot of time preparing for the exam and for goodness sake stuck it out while half-dead, so she deserves a break (plus I don't want to come in another day to give her a new exam.) The exam was at 8am so I got up at 6 and now I'm really tired. Blech. Glad it's the end of the term.
