Humanities Testing Center Explanation
First off - this article is informative - while the article "The Humanities Testing Center Experience" is very funny and you really should read it.
The article below is true - and I went and passed it around campus during the summer as well as emailed it to 100 BYU humanities professors. "Why in the world would I do such a crazy thing?" you ask? Before I answer that question I recommend that you go sit in a chair for 40 minutes while your body is screaming at you to go use the restroom and at the same time try to write a coherent essay on how the Spanish Inquisition affects Japanese video game programmers.
I spammed 100 professors because there's really no good way to be able to get a hold of the person in charge of the humanities testing center. Even after all those emails and calls to the BYU Info Desk and several different responses, I still have no idea who is actually in charge of it or who to talk to about it.
A few professors emailed me back and said, "Why not just use the restroom before hand?" or "be prepared and go before". To which I wonder if they actually read the article or not, because if they had they would clearly see that that idea was already included in suggestion #3.
One secretary was wondering where I got the professors' emails from because she said the list was 'outdated', and I gave her the answer: "Your current BYU Humanities Webpage". Hopefully they've updated it by now. And hopefully they've given back students the privilege of using the restroom during a test.
Footnote 1: I'm mainly saying the negative aspects - a few professors emailed back with words of sympathy, and one professor even made a good point that people with medication or diabetes or other illnesses often have intense urges to use the restroom and should not have to disclose private medical knowledge in public just to be able to use the restroom.
Footnote 2: you are currently allowed to use the restroom while in the middle of a test in the normal testing center located in the Heber J Grant Building - I know this because I emailed them myself.
The article below is true - and I went and passed it around campus during the summer as well as emailed it to 100 BYU humanities professors. "Why in the world would I do such a crazy thing?" you ask? Before I answer that question I recommend that you go sit in a chair for 40 minutes while your body is screaming at you to go use the restroom and at the same time try to write a coherent essay on how the Spanish Inquisition affects Japanese video game programmers.
I spammed 100 professors because there's really no good way to be able to get a hold of the person in charge of the humanities testing center. Even after all those emails and calls to the BYU Info Desk and several different responses, I still have no idea who is actually in charge of it or who to talk to about it.
A few professors emailed me back and said, "Why not just use the restroom before hand?" or "be prepared and go before". To which I wonder if they actually read the article or not, because if they had they would clearly see that that idea was already included in suggestion #3.
One secretary was wondering where I got the professors' emails from because she said the list was 'outdated', and I gave her the answer: "Your current BYU Humanities Webpage". Hopefully they've updated it by now. And hopefully they've given back students the privilege of using the restroom during a test.
Footnote 1: I'm mainly saying the negative aspects - a few professors emailed back with words of sympathy, and one professor even made a good point that people with medication or diabetes or other illnesses often have intense urges to use the restroom and should not have to disclose private medical knowledge in public just to be able to use the restroom.
Footnote 2: you are currently allowed to use the restroom while in the middle of a test in the normal testing center located in the Heber J Grant Building - I know this because I emailed them myself.
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