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To: energyplay who wrote (62440)	4/3/2010 6:47:02 AM
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To: energyplay who wrote (62440)	4/4/2010 8:18:43 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218083

International Relations: Jack made it to his last semester of his last of two years in graduate school. He calibrated his credit hours at easy 14 credit hours to be just and only enough to graduate with dual masters of engineering and business degrees. Jack already have in pocket the precise job offer he desired, one that would see him go to far corner of a wonderful world. Given the job offer and its generous compensation, jack engaged with his geewhizbangohwhoawee Mazda rx-7 rotary engined freedom machine. Now all jack needed to do is to take no more risks and graduate. Taking 14 credit hours of course load, after four and half years of 18 to 28 credit hours of enough skipped classes, promises to be EASY peasy! What would easy a breezy would be if jack can convince the administrators that he should be allowed to substitute a business school elective, say human resource management, with a cake-walk arts & science course, for example, international relations. The rationale would be jack wanted to engage with international business and embracy global adventure. The true reason was jack read foreign affairs magazine occasionally and felt he knew all to do with Nato n and such modern history, even though he really, by hintsight, knew nothing about Int'l relations. Jack got his wish, and felt confident enough to take Int'l relations pass/fail, meaning anything less than C- would be a fail. Before the script is set, I note that jack felt so confident about achieving a passing grade without learning and studying, but by just testing for mid-term and final, that jack did not bother with the trouble of picking up the sylabus or the inconvenience of buying the textbooks. Jack, without course sylabus, less text books, minus a clue, skipped all lectures and all recitations, but was confident to get se grade higher than C for the coming mid-term which would account for 40% of course grade. Jack would thereafter calibrate his final exam to achieve a C for a passing grade, graduate with dual degrees and sign on to globe-trotting job. Jack swaggered into the mid-term exam hall ten minutes before 7:00pm for the 3-hours trial, ready to expound on the topic of Korean war and explicate on the subject of NATO whatever. Jack, on sound of bell, turns over the question sheet and silently read the first two questions, something about why did the vikings invade England and something else about the holy roman empire. Jack figured he must be in the wrong examination hall, and was asked the right questions of the wrong class. 499 undergraduate students busily wrote essays on subjects they were obviously familiar and apparently comfortable with. one graduate student was stuck, but soon got to dire and imaginative work. Yes, the Vikings invaded England because they wanted land, food, and women folks. The holy ran empire drew a complete blank. The inevitable F was Jack's mid-term exam score. Jack would have to score A+ on the final in order to pass the Int'l relations course that included in it's first half middle age European history. And yes, the final would still have middle age European history question. How can jack score a necessary A+ against 499 eager undergraduates who did not care that jack's entire future was hanging on his knowlege of middle age European history? What now?