Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for June 11, 2015

until you get to the grades where the last day is a test worth a third or half your grade, yes, it is a good day. They said that would prepare me for college. I never had a final that was that much of my grade. At worst as I recall it was a 5th, with 2 (huge) papers, the midterm, and a class presentation on one of the essays, and that was rare. On the other hand I was at a small enough university that professors could actually read every paper and test essay and scheduling 20 students to do a 1o-minute talk meant 5 days of 4 people each talking (my father was a biochemistry professor so I personally knew that there weren’t TAs etc doing the work, with every lab groups’ report he was there with his calculator putting in the numbers they got from the lab and seeing what result those numbers should have gotten, meaning he did as much math as all the students did when grading, just with more practice).