Preemptive Torture

Tuesday is such a strange day of the week. It''s not Monday, and it's not quite the middle of the week. I do like Tuesdays though.

I have a test tomorrow! Well, not a test technically, but it is worth 10% of my grade (enough for me to call it a test, if I do say so myself). He calls it a quiz to make sure we've been paying attention in lecture. You know how most of my classes do that? Attendance. Also, I'm pretty sure he has enough people who come to lectures who aren't even in the class to warrant not needing to test people's attentiveness. Oh well. College is college. I also have multiple papers and other project type things due in the coming weeks. Which brings me to a point about college (and high school) teachers in general.

Teachers conspire
Against students, and put all
Tests at the same time


Really, I'm pretty sure that teachers have secret conferences in which they plan this (and I feel like I may have already talked about this before maybe). I'd imagine the conferences would look something like this:

Teacher 1: "Okay, I'm planning to assign a paper due Thursday the 4th. Does that work for everyone?"
Teacher 2: "Perfect! I have lecture on Friday, I'll have a test that day"
Teacher 3: "Hmm, I think I could probably have a research report due the 3rd"
Teacher 4: "Damn, I just had a test last week. I'll have a paper due Friday I guess, and I'll assign 200 pages of reading for Wednesday."

Seriously. If teachers spaced out work, life would be simpler. But no, that's not possible, and we end up having 3 papers due the same day that we have a test.