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DiHard said:
.....spent half my test staring at her.....

reminds me of a story or two.

i used to work for the registrar while an undergrad, the office of testing more specifically. mostly it was administering placement tests, examination credit, and grading the scantron tests, however on weekends they would pay us anywhere from 10 to 20 bucks an hour (early nineties money) to administer tests like the SAT, ACT, LSAT and whatnot.

anyways being an undergrad me and the boys would drink like a maniac 5 or 6 days a week at a minimum so getting up early to watch people take tests was not an easy thing to do. you had to just sit there and be quiet and watch people for cheating. you couldn't make any noise. you couldn't fart or burp from having drank all night long. it basically sucked but it was an easy hundred bucks or so. to stay awake i would bring in like every newspaper i could buy, classwork, just about anything to read but it never helped me stay awake. i needed something more, some eye candy.

part of the job was to make sure people didn't sit by their friends and cheat so when they lined up outside the room we were supposed to sit them randomly. well it just so turned out that in my room (and many others) that hot ass chicks sat in the front row and around the edges for easier ogling. dudes all sat in the middle.

maybe not the funniest story but it reminds me of another testing story. i had issues with foreign TA's at ohio state. they didn't speak english very well and it limited their effectiveness to do their job, but that probably makes me racist in tibor's eyes.

i had one TA for an econ class (econ 520 - banking?) that was awful. it sounded like he had a lump of shit in his mouth when he talked. anyways, he gave us this one test or quiz or whatever and totally butchered the english language on one of the questions. he asked one thing and basically graded the answer on what he thought he wrote when in fact it was the exact opposite. i confronted this bastard after class one day about it and showed him why i was correct and his test was wrong. he felt that it was ok since he graded everyones test incorrectly. professor cole thought otherwise and my test was fixed.

anyways i used to give the TOEFL test as well as the ACT and what not. for those of us that are american born and bred the TOEFL is the test of english as a foreign language. it was a test that the TA's had to pass in order to keep their job and in some cases stay in this country.

normally i am an easy going guy but i would bust balls during the toefl like no other. if you penciled in one bubble after the bell, you were thrown out of the test. if you broke the seal of your test early to get a split second head start you never got to take the test. i was an ass to these TA wannabe's taking the TOEFL and i was damn proud of it. one guy i tossed out started to tear up when i kicked him out of the test (and possibly this country) and i just loved it.

again probably not a funny story but a story all the same.
 
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sounds good to me...the worst part of TAs was that they couldn't speak english. Seriously...the whole point of school is to learn...but you can't learn from a guy who doesn't speak your language. I don't care how smart they are.
 
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I had an asian TA for a freshman calculus class, who used to copy a word from the book onto the blackboard and then point to it and say to us- "How you say?"

We figured it was an even trade- we taught him english, and he taught us math.
 
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DEB.. that's funny... and it reminds me of the first classes I ever encountered the language issue in two classes same qtr... a Comp Sci class... and stats class... teachers were Pakistani and a Spaniard...

Notes were littered with 'conswershun' and 'cubbert' .. took me weeks till I figured out neither teacher had a 'V' sound in their dialect...

the Paki was saying 'conversion' ... and Spaniard was saying 'cover' .. but since these were brand new classes/toipcs for me.. I was taking 'great' notes.. I thought they were teaching me stuff not in the textbook
 
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