LCI application submitted

[topaz]

Just sent off my completed evaluation exam for the LCI seminar the weekend after next.  It wasn't long -- 50 multiple choice, 25 true/false, and 10 short answer -- but cripes, some of them were hard.  At least one question ("what is the most reliable guide for monitoring your level of power output when bicycling on level ground in still air?") appeared to have no prior art anywhere in our class literature -- or, as far as I can tell, on Da Intarwebz.  Moreover, I am convinced that the question about how to change a flat tire has no correct answer, and was planted strictly to guarantee that no one can achieve a perfect score on this test.

Anyway.  Now I have to start practicing parking-lot drills.  They're also going to assign me something to present in class, in order to evaluate my teaching ability.

Public presentation.  Now that's something that reaches down and invokes cold, clammy fear in my lizard brain.  But hey, that's what this is all about, right?  Right?

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PS - I've had worse questions. Most memorably one of my Bar exam essay questions. The question was carefully designed to make it look as if the guy were breaking & entering and robbing but a careful reading yielded that none of the required elements were present (the door was slightly open => not breaking, the guy had no intention of taking anything when he walked in => not robbing, etc.). The question was "What might the guy be charged with?"

The answers they were looking for were B&E and robbery, with a long explanation of why he wasn't actually guilty of these things. He might, with equal reason, have been charged with barratry, treason, or "crimes against nature" - these being just as unsupported as a B&E charge.

Alas. I knew that my score wasn't going to be good enough for me to get away with being a wise-ass so I went with B&E. To this day, I have the fond hope that a better student than I chose the higher course.