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Philosophy professor at the front of the classroom with the following final exam question written on the blackboard:
"How do you plan to make a living with a philosophy degree?" ***
The story around Harvard was that there was a graduate Math course whose final always consisted of "Make up an appropriate final exam for this course and answer it. You will be graded on both parts."
Then one year, a student answered as follows:
The exam is: "Make up an appropriate final exam for this course and answer it. You will be graded on both parts."
The answer is: "Make up an appropriate final exam for this course and answer it. You will be graded on both parts."
His reasoning was that since that was the best exam the professor could write, it certainly ought to be good enough for a student. He got an A. The professor specifically prohibited that answer from then on. ***
While taking a psychology course in college, the teacher had a habit of putting the following questions on an exam:
Ask yourself a question and answer it.
Being a math major, I asked myself "Solve the following differential equation [* equation deleted *] under the following conditions [* conditions deleted *]" and proceeded to solve it.
The next day, I stopped by the math office to see one of the professors. He told me, "Go away, I'm stuck grading your stupid psych exam"
I got full credit, and the psych professor never put that question on an exam again. ***
A professor was known for being an easy grader. The grades he gave for a survey course (i. e. the type where you are expected to learn generalities and not specifics) were based entirely on two exams, and the stuff on the exams was entirely covered in the textbook. So showing up for class wasn't a big deal.
However, this started to get out of hand. As word of the course spread, at each semester, there was a larger block of students who would show up infrequently or not at all, except for the exam days. Finally, it got so bad that about half of the students one term never showed before the midterm. On the day of the midterm, everyone came in and a graduate assistant handed out exams, "Prof x. is sick, so he asked me to give you your exams."
There was only one question in the exam booklets: "Which one of the pictures below is of professor x?"
Obviously, the students who never showed up didn't know and had to guess. Many failed, while the students who had been showing up regularly got A's. ***
I've no idea how true it is or if it's an Urban Legend. This guy was taking an exam in Trinity College here (old college, about 400 years old). In the middle of the exam, he called a porter and requested his pint of ale. The porter, of course, just looked at him.
Our hero then produced a copy of the *old* regulations which stipulated that a gentleman was entitled to this type of refreshment.
The college authorities, fearing more expensive and disruptive episodes in the future, checked the college regulations. They then provided our man with his
a head which is a circular plane with a diameter of 0.5 mm. Make any other assumptions necessary to solve the problem. The professor was sorry to admit that he had | 
