So, this week, I was set to have a CS 230 midterm on Wednesday and a MATH 239 midterm on Thursday.

So, I’m sitting at home this morning, lounging around and studying and whatnot. At around 1:00, I log onto the class website to confirm the room, time, and seat number of my midterm. *

*Brief Aside: For those unfamiliar with computer science midterms, they typically have a specific seat assigned to each student, and the student’s name is already written on the exam

So, I log on to the secure site and check my seat. But then I look at the date. Tuesday, March 3rd? That’s not Wednesday March 4th, as previously advertised. More importantly, Tuesday March 3rd was TODAY!

So, I’m sitting there in my room, in my bathrobe, with no clothes (because the laundry machines were occupied the night before), and I have a midterm in 3 hours. Oh…shit…

So, I quickly have a shower, run to the drier and grab some of my clothes, and drive to campus. I study as frantically as I can, and go to the midterm room.

The midterm went terribly. I wouldn’t be surprised if I failed (or am close to failing).

Really sucks though.

A person in my program had their midterm from this course for last year. I studied a lot off of that before the midterm itself. And I checked the date on the front of the old midterm. It occurred on March 4, 2008.

Turns out that my confusion stemmed from the fact that the professor - in his negligence - didn’t change the course notes or the course web page so that until shortly before the midterm, it said it was March 4th.

However, I set the date on Google Calendar during the very first lecture, and have left it untouched ever since.

Really shitty. I’m just glad I discovered it before the midterm was already happening.