We took a quiz in my Race in US Politics class last Thursday. On the previous Tuesday, he told us we were having it, layed out what it would be on (the reading for that day). I made sure to do the reading. However I misread the syllabus, and only read one of the two readings. I realized this just before class, and spent five minutes scanning a thirty or forty page paper. I get to the class, there are four questions, only one on the second reading. Great.

I had no idea how he would grade them. I was pretty careful with the questions I knew, and I did an OK job bullshitting the question on the reading I only scanned. At the end of class today, he handed back the papers. I got a 99, scale of 100.

Each question was worth fifteen points, and if you got at least ten points total, he added fourty points (if you couldn’t pick up ten points, you obviously didn’t read (and don’t have the ability to write anything remotely connected to the class, apparently)).

Totally blows my mind. I got full credit on the last question, missed a point elsewhere. It put me into my first good mood in several days. Wild.

Bad Religion — Materialist
You’re obsesssed and distressed
Cause you can’t make any sense of the ludicrous nonsense
And incipient senescence
That will deem your common sense useless
This ain’t no recess!