NDSU Professor bit by the Christmas bug

Written by Ebuka Okoye Monday, 08 December 2008 19:00

Christmas is here again. It’s time to relax and celebrate the birth of the one who came into this world to save us two thousand years ago. This is the period for giving that extra ounce of love we don’t give on a normal day; the season for giving and receiving gifts.

We are used to people saying that they “heard it through the grapevine” when broadcasting rumors, most of which turn out to be wrong; they probably got drunk from consuming all those fermented grapes in the vine.

Well, I heard something, and it wasn’t through the grapevine, but rather through the pine trees. If my hearing was accurate, this year’s Christmas season promises to be the best ever in the history of this great institution in a way like no other has been.

NDSU has always been renowned for possessing one of the best and most innovative professors in the country and they have proved why they have been touted as so.

Well guess what? This year, ALL professors from every faculty seem to be bitten by the Christmas bug.

Why? They will be giving out the answers to the exam questions for this semester’s finals.

Unbelievable as it may seem, it is very true. This was actually proposed by a certain psychology faculty member who is carrying out a research on how people react to giveaways that seem too good to be true.

This idea quickly spread like wild fire among the faculty members of the different colleges and they unanimously agreed to carry out the plan.

They also felt it was a great way to reward the students for their tireless efforts towards school work by cutting them some slack and as compensation for the lack of a much needed fall break which other colleges have.

Now some people might be so excited by this piece of news that they may fail to notice that it is only the answers that will be given out, not the questions except in the case of mathematics as it is difficult to work the answers in reverse so as to figure out the question so math questions will be given out instead.

For those of you skeptics who are wondering what would be the use of the answers if you don’t know the questions, you have to remember the saying that goes, “half a loaf of bread is better than none.” It’s better to have the answers and play a game of find-the-correct-match than have nothing to work with at all.

I highly commend our learned professors for yet another revolutionary trend which other colleges will be sure to copy off of. I’m sure that the rest of the school will concur with me that never in my wildest imagination would I have wished for anything better.

These professors have earned my utmost respect and admiration.

These professors may not realize that in addition to the reasons for which they are executing this wonderful plan, they will also rouse the spirits of those who are depressed as a result of the stress of the college workload and are on the verge of giving up.

The freshmen that slacked off throughout this semester would especially be grateful, as this might just be their saving grace for a semester that would have been disastrous.

In my opinion, ample raises in their salaries, making their pockets heavy till they beg for no more, could only justly reward such an idea by these professors.

This is one more reason why I have come to love NDSU so much that if it was possible to be a professional college student, I would. I guess Santa has been outdone this year.