What happens if... [Finals]

Flag Guy · 12-11-2007, 02:37 AM

No you wouldn't - you'd win even more crap from CA

oskyclone · 12-11-2007, 02:38 AM

you definitely got the crap part right...why are you not in bed studying? go to bed or else you will be with me at bball games next semester as a student and im sure you dont want that

Flag Guy · 12-11-2007, 02:44 AM

I'm about to head to bed after studying for the last couple of hours.

Well sorta... just have HD FS 276 tomorrow.... I don't know everything for all of the topics tomorrow but I do have a number of the topics down pat already

mjones34 · 12-11-2007, 07:40 AM

My wife just got the call; all of Des Moines closed down. ISU on their homepage says classes are in session. In my opinion, they won't close until there is a serious injury or death sadly. I have one final left before graduation and dammit, I will walk 3 miles to take it if I have to. I'm not doing any BS make-up test later this week.

mjones34 · 12-11-2007, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by Flag Guy

I'm about to head to bed after studying for the last couple of hours.

Well sorta... just have HD FS 276 tomorrow.... I don't know everything for all of the topics tomorrow but I do have a number of the topics down pat already

Took HDSF 276 last week....CAKE.Just go over the study guide a couple times because that is all that is on the test really.

dornstar44 · 12-11-2007, 08:04 AM

I know Wichita State closed last night and all the finals that were supposed to be taken last night have been pushed back to next Monday - I have no idea what all the students are gonna do that are from out of town/state and have plans to go home this weekend :-(

TykeClone · 12-11-2007, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by SouthernHawk

Does anybody know what happens if the school is forced to close on a finals day? Do we make up the finals, do they just figure our grades based on our current percent, or what? Not that I'm hoping or anything...

I was taking a summer class in 1993 during the floods. I had a history final on the day that Hilton flooded - made if half way to Ames before I heard that classes were canceled. I (along with the rest of the class) showed up at the professor's door the following day and asked about the status of the final - his response was "do you want to take it?"

Everyone left. In a hurry.

travman23 · 12-11-2007, 09:05 AM

Here's a better question, has this EVER happened? Like someone said, it's probably take a lot more than a little snow and ice to cancel finals. A power outage or blizzard conditions or some kind of natural disaster is about the only thing I can think of that would cancel a day of finals.

theshadow · 12-11-2007, 09:56 AM

In the 11-12 years I've lived in Ames, I can only recall ISU classes being cancelled, at most, three times. I believe two of those were for the entire day, and one was "after 4:00".

It would easily take 9-10" of snow on top of any accumulated ice before ISU would even consider shutting it down. Especially during Finals week.

throwittoblythe · 12-11-2007, 10:08 AM

The only thing that might happen if there is horrible weather during finals would be that they hold the final, and professors must make accomodations for students who can't make the final. However, they'd have to write an entirely new final because people could cheat and they'd have to deal with students complaining about others getting more time to study.

Long story short, it's never going to happen.

cloneu · 12-11-2007, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by mjones34

Took HDSF 276 last week....CAKE.Just go over the study guide a couple times because that is all that is on the test really.

Ah 276, what a fun class. If you do the extra credit it is almost a guaranteed A. I like classes like that.

Flag Guy · 12-11-2007, 10:34 AM

Last time classes were cancled (it does not happen often) it was because it was going to snow in the middle of the day, closing down 30 and 35 out of town. So while it wasn't going to prevent people from coming to school, it was going to prevent them from going home

I thought that was odd... usually those are the people that have to suck it up or make alternative arragements (since most of the student population and enough of the professors/TA's live IN Ames, the decision is usually based on transportation around Ames)

Flag Guy · 12-11-2007, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by mjones34

Took HDSF 276 last week....CAKE.Just go over the study guide a couple times because that is all that is on the test really.

Glad to hear it, because thats what I'm doing

mike4cy · 12-11-2007, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by mjones34

Took HDSF 276 last week....CAKE.Just go over the study guide a couple times because that is all that is on the test really.

Yeah, I took that last week as well. So this question has been on my mind a few times in that class throughout the semester.....do you guys think that the prof (Chapman) is the freek in the sheets that she comes off as???

Rogue52 · 12-11-2007, 10:41 AM

So, let's see. Classes were cancelled after the noon hour last February I believe. So, that means that classes won't be cancelled for another 26 years.

Finals are on. Too bad for all of you, I'm doing a co-op in Cedar Rapids, so it really doesn't matter to me this time around...