Academic Pressure Enthusiast Pillows

'May I be excused? The pressure is getting to me.'

Scarcity

'I really crammed last night.'

Four Types of Test-Takers...

'I got an alleged C on my criminal law test.'

"It started with a simple case of peer-review."

"It's not fair! I only got 100 on my English test!"

Congratulations! All that cramming paid off.

"This is a test. This is only a test. IF this had been the real world it'd be your job you'd be fighting for, not a letter of the alphabet."

"Should we put down what we think is right, or what we think you think is right?"

Paper to boy: 'Did you forget something? I'm your take home test.'

"We thought this was more realistic."

An Archeologic Dig

Master's Degrees of the Universe

'Child labor laws don't apply to homework, Jimmy.'

Max Weber

'Does it matter what answer I put down? After all, this is Liberal Arts.'

'Exams were harder before the Renaissance.'

"So this is it...the first day of the new school year. I guess studying, tests and report cards are still the hot things around here."

'In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of tenure.'

'I would've studied for that test, but I thought it would be a piece of cake.'

'After being here for more than forty years - as undergraduate, graduate student instructor, professor - what saddens me most is that this was not the college of my choice.'

'Ooops. Wonder if I can claim El Nino caused a surge in water pressure?'

"Millstone is not yet a full professor."

"You want real pressure?!! Try where I work."

Waiting for the results.

'I'll accept that excuse for now, but you need to have a brain by Monday.'

'It was a surprise quiz to me and the teacher - I passed!'

"I thought SAT was 'Smart Alec Teacher'!"

Exam Room.

Cambridge Dons Researching Gravity.

"Dude, I've never seen you so happy about a 'B' before."