Some Quick Laughs

A few funny incidents took place in class this week. In the first incident, my drilling professor was trying to explain the venue distribution for our mid-term exam that is going to be held next week when he made the statement;

“For postgraduate students, some of you will take the exam in the computer room of the School of Petroleum Engineering where there are computers, while the rest will go to the computer room where there are no computers."

Why would they want to name it computer room in the first place when it has no computers?

My 70-plus year old lecturer from another subject gave us an assignment last week, and two of my classmates were arguing on when is that assignment due. The first one was pretty confident that we are supposed to hand it in this week, while the second one was equally defiant in her belief that it will be due next week, going as far as to say that she even talked to that lecturer in person before to confirm on that. Too afraid that she might be wrong, and maybe fretting at the thought that she has not even started the assignment, that second classmate started to mumble;

“Hish I don’t like this situation, I don’t like him (our lecturer). He’s always like this you know. He’s... he’s…”

Noting that she struggled to find the right adjective, I tried to suggest ‘undecided’, or ‘unpredictable’ to her, but just when I was about to do that another classmate who sat close by chipped in, nonchalantly;

“…old”

One of the questions asked in our Petrophysics mid-term exam yesterday goes something like this:

“Which of the hydrocarbon reservoir described below will make the Petroleum Engineers happiest?”

Can exam questions be any more informal than that? Anyway, I would have answered ‘end of each month when they get their paycheck’ if not for the hydrocarbon reservoir and the fact that it was an objective question.

In the last incident, noticing that some of us have yet to do the submission of our assignments, my lecturer uttered these words;

“Well, deadline is a deadline. You’ll be dead if you don’t submit this work by the deadline.”