Exam Tips for Rowers
by Stephen Arthur-Wong
posted on January 1, 1999
For those rowers out there who are now entrenched in
the halls of academia after spending most of the
semester rowing their brains out here's a quick list
of ways that crew can provide a more pleasant and
successful final exam experience:
- in class, position your coach over your shoulder
to correct any mistakes
- tell your professor you only got through one
paragraph of your final paper and then you caught
a crab
- everytime you get stuck on a hard problem, sit
upright and yell: "in two, i'm taking a ten to
send harvard away"
- bring a water bottle with you (which in a pinch
can serve another purpose in case your professor
doesn't allow bathroom breaks)
- have a coxswain there to let you know how you're
doing compared to everyone else. ex: "she just
broke her pencil, here's where you make your move!"
- bring a pitch meter, clams, and a 7/16's wrench
with you in the exam. the pitch meter to arrange
your desk for optimal angle, the clams for your
pencil so as the questions increase in difficulty
you can "lighten the load", and the 7/16 for . . .
well it's just a good idea no matter where you go
- if you need some more time to cram before the exam,
just raise your hand to let your professor know that
you are not aligned
- explain to the dean that it's not cheating to let
your bowman with the 4.0 take the test for you
since he/she is just an extension of you
- after the test, raise your hand and protest that
ohio state came over into your lane
- treat the exam like a 2000: do only 3/4 of the
first question, 1/2 of the second, and 3/4 of
the third and fourth. then, settle down to
your regular pace until the last 5 questions
which you do in 1:20.
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