I guess we're all in a period of exams. A difficult and sometimes depressing part of the year, even though summer is coming (in the Northern Hemisphere, at any rate... there are some of us who live in Australia, right?).

Anyway... here are a few funny pics I've found at another forum.

A silly forward sent to me on this very day so i decieded it was fate/karma/whatever the hell (s######) you want to call it.

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.

The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :


Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell,then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED A+

Silly story but i thought it was fitting

EDIT : Interesting it corrected my s-n-i-g-g-e-r how complex and people friendly is invision free. This I ask the community.

I have heard a variant of the Is Hell Endothermic or Exothermic before and I think it's pretty clever. The other pictures are good too.

EDIT: Now that I've been reminded:


Comic from http://www.xkcd.com

There are some few of us who live in Australia, yes. I imagine there might even be people from other places in the Southern hemisphere, p'raps. I'm less worried about exams than I am about assignments, however.

I don't have any amusing faux-exam results to share, although I almost titled one of my essay as follows:

Coffee: Good or Evil?
An Examination of Seventeenth Century Documents and Noting the
Similarities to the Modern Drug Debate. Also: Long Titles for Essays:
Should We Resurrect the Tradition?

I didn't. Oddly, my lecturer was disappointed I didn't name the essay thus.

Yeah, we've got what I guess would be referred to as "mid-terms" down here in Oz. Not something I'm used to in the UK, we normally have all our exams at the end of the year. But then everything is so much more laid back down here I'm not really worried about them. Plus, in my very humble opinion, the course is much easier as well. Hooray!

Also means that I have a mere seven week left before I get back to Blighty and the game of Warhammer itself. Time can't move swiftly enough, except that I've got to get straight into researching my final year project... Uni is great, but sometimes the work just doesn't seem to end.

Cheers,
DLJ

:lol: Great find @ztech! Those really made me laugh out loud! :D

Weird. I prefer having many exams over the course of the year. If your exams are only at the end, you have to try to remember in May what you learned in September... It must be an enormous load of work in a small amount of time.

Do they really have homework during the summer holiday in UK?

Er, I thought you were at university, DLJ? I can understand why you'd have exams only at the end of the year in school, given that your subjects would remain pretty consistent all year, but at university you take different courses each semester. F'r instance, last year I took two religion courses and a history in first semester and two English and a history in second semester.

I wouldn't relax too much about your end-semesters, either. Those are usually pretty hardcore. Unless you've got easy subjects, obviously.

I am at Uni, Benedictus. However, what I'm used to in the UK is having all of my subjects examined at the end of the year, regardless of whether they were first or second semester. Such is the way of things.

I really do feel relaxed about exams out here though. Things that have been taught to me in third year units out here are the same as second year units I've taken back in the UK, specifically Geographical Information Systems.... Another reason to dread my return I guess....

Cheers,
DLJ

I for one will be taking the Junior Certificate in just over three weeks, which is the Irish version of GCSEs, but with more subjects (eleven) in less detail; I know this because I've spoken to people doing GCSEs and even just following other curriculums curricula, and my peers are studying things I've not covered but will be in the next step of my education. I don't know how it would equate to American or Australian education systems, however, or any other for that matter.

By the 26th, I'll be done with school. Sadly, I didn't manage to get a summer job, but I must admit I didn't try much. Two reasons: laziness (I'm not too lazy for a job, just too lazy to find one) and lack of confidence (I always fear not to be up to the job).

I'm currently writing my final essay about the medieval origins of capitalism. Later I'll have another about the history of hats (yes, hats) through Middle Ages and Renaissance.