What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, December 23, 2002
Another good one:
Two guys were taking Chemistry at UNC. They were doing well in the class and thought that going into the final they had a solid "A". They were so confident that the weekend before finals week, they went
to MSU to party with some friends.
They had a great time. However, with hangovers and
everything, they overslept all day Sunday and didn't
make it back to Chapel Hill until early Monday morning,
the day of the exam.
Rather than taking the final then, they found their
professor after the final to explain to him why they
missed the final.
They told him that they went up to the MSU for the
weekend, and had planned to come back in time to study,
but that they had a flat tire on the way back, and didn't have
a spare, and couldn't get help for a long time, so they were
late in getting back to campus.
The professor told them they could make up the final on the
following day. They were elated and relieved. At the
final, the professor placed them in separate rooms, handed
each of them a test booklet and told them to begin.
The first problem, worth 5 Points, was something simple
about Molarity & Solutions. "Cool," they thought.
"This is going to be easy."
The next problem was worth 95 Points. It asked: "Which tire?"