今天終於考完第一科(Human Body Systems)了
想到昨天在報紙上看到的這張照片還蠻經典的所以就放上來囉
這是大考前在旦尼丁出了名的Library Rush
也就是早上八點整 Otago大學最大的圖書館Central Library開門的時候
一大票學生衝進去搶位子的景象
天啊 簡直就像是西班牙的Stampede ==
不過說起來這些人真了不起啊...大概有十之八九是Health Sci (nerds)吧?
但是沒看到更多亞洲人還真是意外
(在此聲明...我並不在上面== 因為懶得跟那些瘋子搶所以考試期間我都躲在房間自己讀書啊啊)
以下是伴隨著這張照片的Otago Daily Times報導...
Students race for study spaces as exams begin
By Allison Rudd on Thu, 16 Oct 2008
Photo by Gerard O'Brien
The arrival of end-of-year exams has led to a migration of a different kind for University of Otago students.
Hundreds of them are rising with the sparrows to secure their favourite study spots at the institution's libraries, queuing for up to half an hour to ensure being among the first through the doors.
The main information services building, which generally has study spaces for about 2200 students, plus extra seating for a few more at exam time, opens each weekday morning at 8am and closes at 11pm. Yesterday, as they had every day for the past week or so, the first students were on the doorsteps by 7.30am, lending services co-ordinator Tina Broderick said.
As 8am approached, numbers had swelled to an estimated 250 outside the main entrance and another 150 at the west door.
"We draw a bigger crowd than [Prime Minister] Helen Clark did when she was on campus on Monday," one staff member quipped as he watched the crowd building up.
When the doors opened most of the students dashed up the stairs and made a beeline for tables and cubicles on the first floor.
It would have been a similar scene when the doors opened at other libraries such as the law library, the medical library and the science library, Ms Broderick said.
Even with the temporary extra seating, all the libraries were packed throughout the day during mid-year and end-of-year exams, she said.
"We're open all year, but the students know exam time is crunch time."
Students could stay as long as they liked, she said, but staff moved their gear on if they deserted their posts for an unreasonably long period.
End-of-year exams began yesterday for about 12,700 undergraduate students and continue until November 8.
A total of 615 exam papers are being sat in 25 rooms on the Dunedin campus, 25 venues throughout New Zealand and in some 35 venues overseas, including Alkmaar in the Netherlands, Helsinki in Finland, Masan in South Korea and Winnipeg in Canada.
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