The other night, I proctored an exam for a professor to get some extra hours on my internship credits (the internship ended early and I needed to do extra stuff around campus to cover the remaining hours required for credit). She needed me to cover for her while she attended her daughter's orchestra concert. Her daughter only performs twice a year and she had already missed the first one. All I had to do was hand out the exams, ensure no one cheated, collect the completed exams, and then turn them into her office box - so it was not absolutely crucial that she be there herself. She's good about writing up exams that don't contain test errors/discrepancies or confusing terminology, so I wasn't worried about people coming up to me trying to ask questions.
I was a little nervous myself actually, even though I didn't have to take the exam or do anything. I suppose I was afraid I might have to call out someone for cheating or something. I was shaking while I handed out the exam papers, which I did not understand about myself. I still don't, heh. Oh well.
Anyway, it was interesting to watch various students handle the exam. I wasn't watching them the whole time. I was glancing over the class every so often between YouTube videos. I was watching videos because the night class is three hours. One student prayed for about fifteen seconds before picking up her pencil. Several students turned red in the face as they read through the exam with worry on their faces. One student, who's known for having a few strange social habits (by strange, I mean unusual - he's not mean or overly bizarre), got angry as he was sitting in the front row. He had his jaw clenched while he slowly and angrily made a fist on the desk. I'm not sure if he was mad at the professor over some element of the exam or mad at himself for maybe forgetting to study something. I also saw a student who was red in the face pick his nose too, which made go right back to watching YouTube. I was two seconds from issuing a warning about keeping eyes on your own paper after staring down a student who glanced at his neighbors exam for about five seconds. I understand super brief side glances at your neighbor's exam just to see how far along they are compared to you, but this guy was staring way too long. He caught me giving him a glare, and didn't look at his neighbor's exam the rest of the time. He kept looking up at me though, kind of like a punished puppy.
I suppose I'm typing this up because I have only one of two exams left to do for my last semester at Whitworth University, and it's a super easy yoga vocabulary exam. The other one was for my Accounting Systems and Theory exam and I spent all day yesterday completing it. Now, I'm just selling off a few items that I don't want to worry about taking home with me in my car like some cheap framed paintings, my mini-fridge, a full-length mirror, and some other stuff. The residence halls will have taped off designated donation areas next week. I might drop some stuff off there just to be rid of them. I really like spring cleaning like this and just not having a lot of stuff.
I got new senior photos taken that I will print off to send as graduation announcements. Once the photographer is done going through and editing them, I will share them here with a link to his page. he let me look at the raw images and he took a lot of good photos of me! I was very surprised and very pleased. I would have been content taking them as is but since he's running a bit of a business and likes his photography a certain way, I didn't ask to have them unedited.
It still hasn't really hit me yet that I am graduating and will have seven months of little to no obligation to anything. I suppose I could spend these next seven months taking the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exams and attempt to complete and pass them before 2017. That would be super ideal, since they will be adding a fifth exam for certification in 2017. I would also have them all out of the way before I even start my new position, and be given a $5,000 bonus for having passed all of them before having been employed by Moss Adams for a year. Even if I don't complete the current required four exams over the next seven months, it will be good to get even a few of them completed with passing results before I start. Gosh, I just don't want to study anymore though! Motivation is hard, even now.
