Reply #10: I had three finals that I wanted to take early [View All]

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because of ride issues. One prof allowed it and two did not.
Living in a dorm, they kick you out between trimester breaks. Without a car and 300 miles from my parents place without a decent bus connection, getting a ride is a serious problem. In one case I just skipped the exam. I was flunking the class anyway, but hey, if you cannot trust a senior physics major in a physics class, who can you trust? That was at the end of the school year, and my parents were going to a cousin's wedding in NY. It would have been a humongous hassle for me to stay and take that exam and arrange moving out of the dorm, etc.

OTOH, I gave a number of students make-up exams when I was an instructor/grad student. One "student" I remember got 100% on the multiple choice portion of the exam. That's what I get, I guess, for being nice and gullible and lazy. I ahd another student who needed a make-up final because his guard unit got called up to Desert Shield.