Do not be afraid to invoke finals regulations
· Finals week, a week of stress, caffeine loading and sleepless nights, begins Wednesday at 9 a.m. However, throughout the early morning cram sessions and Fondren freakouts, students should know that they have an ally on their side besides the baristas at Coffeehouse -- the final exam policy. According to the General Announcements, students cannot be required to take more than two scheduled exams in two consecutive calendar days. Students also cannot be required to complete more than two take-home or scheduled finals exams on the same calendar day, unless it is the last day of exams.However, students often find themselves in scenarios where finals pile atop each other in just a day or two. They should take solace in the protection offered by the General Announcements and not be afraid to invoke its regulations to their own advantage. fought for these regulations, and they should be applied wherever and whenever necessary. Finals are stressful enough as is, and it is refreshing to know that when the world seems against you, at least you have something to fall back on.So remember, if your finals schedule violates the rules in the General feel free to tell your professors and demand a rescheduling. After all, the rules are on your side.however, we sometimes wish that this regulation applied to the last week of classes as well, when students often face tests and papers just as difficult as finals without the benefit of study days and no classes.
Letters to the editor
· #Thresher needs to be serious, publish daily#
Course evaluations should be taken seriously
· Students will have until Jan. 4 to evaluate their professors and classes via ESTHER, but we hope that everyone will do that long before then. Like last year, the Office of the Registrar is holding prize drawings
Correction on SA Academic Calendar Poll
· We would like to correct errors in last week’s graph of the results of the Student Association Academic Calendar Poll (“SAsa Poll,” Nov. 30). percentages reported for questions 2, 3a, 3b, and 5b were the reverse of the results from the poll. These errors resulted from our not taking into account the fact that the numbers corresponding with an answer of Yes or No were switched with every question. Therefore, several graphs had the results reversed.
Have a great winter break
· Hey everybody, we’re taking off for winter break and so should you, once you are done with finals that is. have fun, relax, say hi to the family and recharge your academic batteries for second semester.and please, let there be some cooler weather. We know it is