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E-PrinceStudents will no longer face the possibility of a 9 a.m. exam the day after Dean’s Date, following discussions between USG academics chair Ben Lund ’10 and University Registrar Polly Griffin.
Lund met with Griffin in April 2008 ...
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Last day of classes: Dec 12.
Deans date: Jan 13.
There is over one month to finish problem sets, write papers, and prepare for exams and students are concerned about getting another 4 hours for their first exam?.
to the above poster, there's a such thing called winter break. other schools have it after finals, but princeton just happens to combine it with reading period.
ok, so subtract two weeks from the one month between Dec 12-Jan 13 for winter break, then add the one week vacation after finals period = three week "princeton" winter break, the typical amount of time in between semesters at other universities.
that still leaves two weeks to do psets, write papers and prepare for exams. a little time management and those 4 hours should not be an issue.
If the University really believed in the Honor Code, we could schedule our own exams.
Princeton administrators shouldn't post on this website. People are going to work until the last possible second for papers and that's the way it is. The "green hair initiative" won't do anything to help find students good at time management
I was very happy to hear about this change in the exam schedule, although a little sad that it couldn't have been implemented during my time at Princeton. Kudos to Ben Lund!
During my four years, I was repeatedly plagued by heavy Dean's Date work loads and 9am exams the day after Dean's Date. There were at least 3 semesters in which I had at least 3 papers due on Dean's Date and an exam the next morning. Two of those times, I had several other exams that same week.
I take exception with the suggestion that simply because I would like a chance to unwind between paper-writing and exam-taking I have weak time management skills. As many people can vouch for, I was one of the most conscientious people I knew in terms of not waiting to the last minute to get work done. I would start papers while home for Christmas break and return to Princeton several days early to get a jump on reading period work while the campus was still quiet. I never wrote a page on Dean's Date because I hated the idea of having to turn in a paper and then get right to work on studying for an exam. That said, why should my effective due date for papers be earlier than other people's simply because I have an exam the next morning?
While four hours likely won't make much of a difference in terms of productivity, it will make a world of difference in terms of mental readiness for many students.