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#203175
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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High schools do it in five days because you write in your classroom rather than in a big exam hall.

For example, each term at the U of S, there's probably 2000 first-year students taking Math 110. The university has them all write at the same time so that they can standardize the exam. But there's no one room big enough to hold all those students, so they set a schedule so that everyone writing that exam writes it at the same time, somewhere on campus. Same with many other classes, even if smaller.
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#203154
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MSN's "Do nice guys always finish last?"
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I've gone both ways on the "3-day call rule," and had varying results. Calling her a week later, way too late, even if you have a valid excuse (I actually WAS away for a week without a phone because of work). On the other hand, calling her the next afternoon, maybe too early, unless it's because you left your cellphone on her bedside table (oops, though I guess, technically, I was calling myself). Three days...well, that just never happens. That's usually a Monday or a Tuesday, and I work both those days.

But, that's just me. YMMV
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#203052
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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Well, I know at our university, all the exams are laid out over a two/three wek period. And three exams in a twenty-four hour period is grounds for having one moved (of course, with three weeks to lay out exams, it rarely happens).

This year, though, it took forever for admin to release the exam schedule, because the first time they did, there was a full day's exams on Good Friday.