Testing Center Musings

Today I filled in for half of my sister Megan's shift at the TC, and it was SO slow. Here's some valuable insights from the time I lazed about earning money:

1. Proctoring in the Music Room upstairs is like entering another dimension. You just sit there. For half an hour. While life continues downstairs. I tried to think about how long a half hour would feel like on the main floor, especially on a slow day like today. Time seems to either stand still or fly by in the Music Room.... please watch the past few episodes of Lost to truly capture my feelings on this.

2. Dang Chemistry tests. Why can't it all be shoved into one class, or just taught once and everyone remember it? Instead of always hearing, "Oh, we don't go that indepth in this level of this class. So please just accept that this random thing I just told you is true." I don't care about knowing why, that's all I need. Really. 10,000 different levels just seems a little redundant to me.

3. Them people who all talk in line to the people behind them, and then I'm like, "I CAN HELP THE NEXT PERSON IN LINE..." and then they stand there forever and then don't even say sorry when they finally come up to me after finishing their conversation. Yeah, I'm not as nice to them, pretty much on purpose.

4. It's really awkward when people take 5 years to pack up after you've already handed them everything and said good luck.... it's like, ok, you can move on now.... so you awkwardly smile to the next people in line, pretend to do something on the computer to take up time (check out our computer screens when you take a final in the Wilk-- not much to do there...), or organize all the person's mess for them while they're packing their bookbag. I end up doing that a lot.

5. Every night just about the time I get to work, the clock in the back starts spinning around at a good clip. Until our time in the back is 15 minutes faster than real time. So then I forget to proctor until my shift is practically half over. Oops.

6. Proctoring is boring. Unless it's downstairs in the computer room, because then they let me read. That's how I got through most of Pride & Prejudice by now.