FROM http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-teaching.html
The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely proportional to the information retained by students.
The problem child will be a school board member’s son.
Corollary: When you are occasionally able to schedule two classes in a row, they will be held in classrooms at opposite ends of the campus.
The more studying you did for the exam, the less sure you are as to which answer they want
Eighty percent of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed about the one book you didn’t read.
A prerequisite for a desired course will be offered only during the semester following the desired course.
Corollary: Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.
If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Corollary: If the test is online, you will forget your password
At the end of the semester you will recall having enrolled in a course at the beginning of the semester–and never attending.
Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during the math final.
Corollary: If you bring extra batteries, they will be defective.
In your toughest final, the most distractingly attractive student in class will sit next to you for the first time.
Anything in parentheses can be ignored.
The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during you last semester.
The more general the title of a course, the less you will learn from it.
The more specific a title is, the less you will be able to apply it later.
The closest library doesn’t have the material you need.
No matter which book you need, it’s on the bottom shelf.
The library will close 5 minutes before you remember that you left your book bag inside.
Corollary: It will be Saturday, and it won’t open until Monday.
Corollary: Your half-finished term paper (due Monday morning) and all your research, will be inside.
You can’t misspell numbers when you write them as digits.
The back of the room is never far enough.
Demerits from a teacher you hate are put on your permanent record.
Merits from a teacher you hate are put on the permanent record of a student you hate even more.
The examination paper is always easier when you are not taking it.
The most ill-behaved student in all of a teacher’s classes is always one of the bright ones he can’t flunk.
Nothing gets their attention like placing your nails on the chalkboard.
Anything that is not firmly secured in place, regardless of size, will find its way out of the room.
No matter how much you study for a test you will be asked a question that you don’t know.
When you study for easy tests is when you fail miserably, but when you don’t study for the hard ones, it’s when you pass with 100%.
When there’s a teacher that everyone says you want, you end up with the ones you don’t want. And when you do get the ones that you want, it’s when they end up changing their ways, and decide to make the class really hard.
If you know you are correct, then you aren’t.
Collegey:
You just finished the paper that counts as your final five minutes before class only to discover the printer is out of ink.
Your parents never fail to call you on your cell phone when you’re at a party [this doesn't really apply with caller id now]
The professor never sticks to the syllabus
The harder you study, the farther behind you get
What is “obvious” to everyone else won’t be to you
Problems that you can work won’t be on the test
Problems that you can’t work will be on the test
If you study hard for that important examination, the setters will decide to change the focus of the exam to one that is ‘thinking-based’ and ‘analytical’.
Corollary: If you memorized information, it will be useless.
If you give information without citing the source, the information given is wrong.
If you cite a source for information, it actually came from somebody else.
If you didn’t cite something, that was the one thing your professor wanted you to cite.
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