the corner office

Now how's that for a novel concept? Instead of having to memorise a thousand facts and regurgitate them at will, you instead get an exam which is quite doable if you understand the concepts and know where to find the answers and put them together. It was my first open-book exam and it went quite well, give or take a lousy section or two.

It was interesting to see what people brought with them. Your have your standard or garden variety student (like me) who had the textbook and their study notes and the various tutorial letters, and then there were those inclined to go the extra mile, and bring all manner of thick and imposing books as well, either because they're showing off, they can afford it, they're far too paraat or because they just plain need to. I'm sure I saw one woman with "CORBA for Dummies."

Unlike todays enlightened exam, tomorrow's exam will mostly be regurgitation of facts, lists and knowing exact turns of phrases used in the textbook. Back to the grind...