Funny story: *WARNING! SOME SEXUAL CONTENT*

So anyways, yesterday we hear an announcement that we have to take a "pre-course aptitude test" today at 10:00. So anyways, this sucks, but I get there on time this morning, sit down, and the test starts. Well, the first page is math. And it's some calculus **** that I've never even SEEN before. So I was like... oh ****. So I turn to the next page. Problem solving and logical thinking. So this page had one question on that, one of those "Mindtrap" type questions. But it's literally unsolvable. Next page. Physics and Mechanics. On this page I am confronted with what looks like a third-year physics question, that looks completely insoluble. So I start wondering. Is this test just a huge joke?
Next page is electonic circuits. There is this ****ed-up electronic circuit diagram on the page which looks similar to a flip-flop circuit that I did lastyear, but there are questions like "calculate the required capacitance value of C1". WTF. Next page is biology, and the page after that is "Communication and Understanding" or some **** like that. The last page is some sort of comment page where you can write about if you thought the test was unfair.
So I'm about to start writing stuff down, when a guy dressed up as a Subway sandwich runs in through the door of the exam room. Then another. Then another. The TAs who are supervising get angry and start trying to kick them out of the room. These TAs had been *******s the entire time - throwing a bunch of people out for "cheating" and stuff. Things were getting interesting.
I happen to flip back to the physics page, and I take a closer look at the problem. And I realized the joke. The question was absolutely FULL of sexual references. First off, it was about a "cylindrical pump" attached to two "spherical containers" at its base, which is used pump liquid out of the top of the "shaft". It then goes on to talk about a "stiffening coefficient" and a student doing "work on the shaft" to cause "all the liquid to be expelled". Then it says to "ignore all head losses due to friction" and to "use the right-hand rule". It then suggested to draw a diagram, so I drew a quick sketch of the "cylinder and two spherical containers", just in time to look up and see the engineers' marching band come through the door, playing as loud as they could.
By this point, everybody was laughing, and word was getting around that the little "marking key" in the bottom left corner of each page was actually a word scramble. It turns out that it unscrambled to say "stupid frosh", and apparently if you got it, then you get perfect on the test. Anyways, I used the last page to write in huge letters "GO LGMB!!!" (The LGMB is the Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad [not a typo], which is the engineering marching band). On the first page I started writing out verses to the engineering song.
Then one of the TAs, who are still trying to pretend that this is serious, finds a porn magazine in the top drawer of the front desk. So he holds it up, shows everyone, and shouts, "DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY? WHOSE IS THIS?! THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!", and then gets hit by several paper airplanes coming from different directions.
So anyways, all in all, it was the most entertaining test I have ever written.

You just copied that out of the MSN window with me, didn't you? :p

That sounds the kind of thing i'd do to some students... they should've made examples of people, making them do chicken impressions to get a "second chance" to stay in the exam...

...Wow...that actually happened? Where are you going to school?

<3

That's wicked!

So what if I did?

And blu, I'm going to school at the University of Toronto.

EDIT: Oh, and how come my paragraph formatting that I painstakingly added didn't work?

Wow. I'm surprised the people in charge let things like that go on there. Funny, though.

so both you guys (kyle and bv) go to uoft for engineering? which department?

computer here..

hehehe

That's definitely physics heh. Nice though. I hope the college I go to will be that cool (don't know what it is yet).

And then you get your test back and realize you F AILED!!!!


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Naw, only I go to U of T. But I told BV on MSN first, and then decided to post it here, so I just copied and pasted.

Wait, so do YOU go to U of T then?

I wish I went to UoT... hopefully next year I will.

yeah, I'm there for computer engineering

Sweet, what residence are you in?

I commute in. It's not really worth spending the money on residence since I only live like 45 minutes away

Are you kidding? 45 minutes of driving to and from school. Gas isn't cheap.

In the US it's very cheap.

A lot cheaper than living on campus!

Hah. Hahah. No.

Do you know how inefficient the majority of American cars are? My dad's truck (Avalanche) went through a tank and a half of gas in less than a DAY. That's just driving. He didn't have the AC on at all. Think about that. Their tanks are NOT small either. Though the gas may seem cheaper, it's not, really.

And Freelancer--my friend lives on campus (Susquehana) for not much, at all. All my other friends who go to college up north say it doesn't cost much at all to live on campus.

I've never even been in a car with AC (to my knowledge).

It should be compulsory for the first week of university/college to involve no work.

That can't be true DeT, my family's 92 dodge caravan has AC, and it's a piece... Unless you live in poverty?


Anyways, I might be going to U of T next year for Computer Science. We'll have to meet up sometime for sure!! I hope I can get in, the competition is fierce...

In europe it's not unheard of for houses or cars to not have AC. Like in Germany, houses don't have AC. At least not generally. No real need for it.

I'm in Montreal, and my commute to uni is almost an hour. Considering that with traffic that the drive is easily an hour and a half, and that the train/metro costs less than driving (calculate 40$/month in gas and 60$/month for parking compared to 59$ for my train/metro/bus pass), well the choice isn't hard at all.

A buddy of mine at McGill had something like that happen to him in his first hear, 'cept the second-years all came in with water guns and hosed down the supervisors. :p

I have yet to be in a house which has AC :p

My commute next term will be 30 minutes on the bus, i'm gonna be buying a pass for about £150.

My commute next year is a 30 minute walk, but who cares - my house is going to cost less than £40 a week.

Bargainous.

Martyn, go to the Sheffield Beginners Ultimate Frisbee tournament, it'll be in Leeds... I'll probably be there, there'll probably be lots of alcohol too.

Sweet, I got sigged!

They do that fake test thing every year

btw what residence are you in, kyle90?

Oh come on, I learned that freshman year in High School >.<

I didn't. Freshman year in high school was "Physics of the real world" which basically meant basic circuitry and some kinetics.

There is only one UT worth talking about and that is the University of Texas at Austin.

I was just joking around :p I take Electronics 3 periods a day, and I've been taking it for 3 years so...yeah.

When is it? I'll check with me mates to see if there's somewhere convinient to crash...

Really? You would think that word would somehow get around about it.

Anyways, I'm in Whitney Hall. It sucks here, because I am surrounded by artsies. Must... protect... hard... hat...

Artsies kick ***. Unless they're goths.

People tend to provide houses to sleep in anyway, but it's planned to be on the 23rd/24th of October.

Sweet - In my diary.

Ya, but dont totally rule out goths, they're building Concrete Henge.