Speaking of Physics...

I had my Physics midterm tonight, and I'm pumped that it has finally come and gone! You would probably think that there couldn't possibly be a lesson to be learned during an exam, but of course... I found one. When everyone was thinking about the exam at hand, I was thinking of a lesson to give on exam etiquette...

Life Lesson: ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SET YOUR MOBILE PHONE TO SILENT RIGHT BEFORE AN EXAM!!!

Yes, someone's mobile phone had an incoming call for literally 90% of the two hour exam period! I couldn't believe it! Was there an emergency? ...Or was the caller too flippin' stubborn to leave a voicemail!? The phone was in a bag at the back of the room, and my two lab partners and I happened to be sitting at the back of the room! We silently laughed it off the first couple of times, but I'm not going to lie, it was terribly distracting. Just imagine it: You are currently writing an exam (actually picture this). You're obviously worn down from studying, you're devoting all your brain power and attention towards the exam, you're extremely focused and want to do well, recalling integral information like nothing else. Now enters a noise that is all too familiar... that distinct vibrating cellphone sound that presents itself after every three second interval, exactly. It doesn't help that you start to anticipate the next vibration and ultimately shift your concentration to the constant vibrating! This is where that dreaded eye twitch of yours comes in. How are you supposed to maintain your concentration!? ...You can't; or at least I can't! I am extremely jealous of the person who can overcome and entirely ignore such a situation.

Anyways, even though it was frustrating, it was also hilarious to see how everyone reacted to the disturbance! When it went off the first time, everyone in the back sort of sighed and shrugged it off with a shake of the head and a wow,-whose-phone-is-that? kind of look. By the third time, people were getting annoyed and would exchange disgusted looks with one another. And by the 6th, 7th, and 8th times, people started to voice their disgust. When the T.A. came by to check our student cards and record our signatures, the girl right in front of me said, "This is ridiculous, it's hard to write an exam when a phone keeps going off every second!" The T.A. replied, "Ya, it's tough..." (or something to that extent) and walked off without doing anything about it! Why wouldn't she go find the bag and give a quick announcement exclaiming, "Whose ever bag this is, turn off you're D@#% cell phone!" Side note: The T.A. was wearing a shirt that said "evil", with a heart replacing the dot in the "i"! That's not a t-shirt I want to see going into an exam...

Overall, the vibrate setting is not good enough, people. So please, have a little respect and enough decency to set your mobiles to silent for your exams! *Sigh*, Thank you!

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