Home and My Jazz Final

FYI: Berge and I won the final MNC of the 2008-2009 schoolyear. Woohoo!

Quote of the day: Swiney swiney! - Colette
Song of the day: Best Imitation of Myself by Ben Folds

I'm home. And it feels good!

Tuesday was the last day of classes. I had a macro final (which I think went okay) and a jazz paper due (which I think I did well on too).
On Monday I had an accounting final (on the computer, 2 tries on each question) and ended up getting an easy A in that class. I also had my jazz history final...there's a story to go with that.

I was supposed to take my jazz history final at 11 am. This final was 100 questions. 50% was "circle the style with which the term fits;" so there's a phrase or person and you circle "dixieland" "swing" "bebop" "cool jazz" "hard bop" "avant garde" "fusion" or "world music."
The other 50% was related to listening. There were 5 listening examples. For each example you circle the style it is, the decade it came from, and 4 artists associated with that style. So the final was a lot of questions, but no writing, which is good. I don't like short answer questions.

Anyway, at 11:30 on Monday morning I wake up to, "Alana, it's 11:30!" CRAP! I get dressed really fast and run down to my class. Thankfully it was in the building next to my dorm. Oh how I love tiny campuses. I see the professor and say, "I just woke up, sorry I'm late!" There were only a couple kids (out of like, 50 originally) left taking the test. My teacher tells me to sit down in the front row. He says, "You know, you were doing so well in the class... too bad you're going to flunk."
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"Nah, I'm kidding." He hands me the test. It's 11:35. The class technically ends at 11:50, and I have another final at noon. I work for a couple minutes then he plays the listening examples for me. At 11:48 he tells me he has to go to a recital down the hall but to bring him the test when I'm done. I could have stayed longer I suppose, except that pesky accounting final had to be taken. At 11:50 I go give him my test. Woah.

Remember how I said there were still kids taking the test at 11:35? I took my jazz final in 15 minutes. The kicker? I got a 91/100 on the exam. OWNED.