Finals

So, it's finals and the tensions are running high.  Students are under an extreme amount of stress and so are professors.  One of those professors is me.  Yesterday, during the exam time for one of my classes, that does not have a final, students were giving presentations.  While the first group was preparing to start I handed out grade-sheets.  BIG MISTAKE.  I think that I was just so proud that I had caught up on all of my grading for that class that I felt the need to show off my (although less than timely) organization. REMEMBER: grade-sheets on the day of the final when there is no time for the student to do anything about it is a BAD idea.  As I began to notice the faces of some of the students filling with panic, I came up with a plan to avoid an onslaught of begging, crying students descending upon me after the presentations were over ...