I can't believe I'm witnessing this in university

Seriously, some people just should not be in university yet. I felt like I was ten years old getting a huge lecture that was meant to intimidate me. I'm telling you, it took me right back to elementary school.

So it all started last week when I wrote my ADMN 260 (Organizational Behaviour) exam. I'll admit, I hadn't studied enough, but I thought that I would do fine because its just an introductory class and it borrows from a whole bunch of disciplines, so I thought it would be one of those general exams. Our prof wasn't there that day (we already knew that she wouldn't be there because she told us she had to go to Australia that week to defend her thesis) so there was some other lady supervising. Our class is fairly large and we are in the nice admin classrooms on the 6th floor of the Education building which means that it is fairly easy to cheat if one wants to. Therefore, half of us were sent to another similar room to write the exam. Anyone can see that 2 rooms and one supervisor is a problem. Anyways, the exam was actually really tough. I was so lost and seriously didn't know how I was going to fill up the page for the short answer. Our classroom was dead silent until the lady that was supervising came back in and asked "Are you guys finding this exam really hard? Because they are really vocal in the other classroom". Then most of us either nodded our heads or made some comment on how much we had studied (not I...) but how little it was helping us now. Then, for the most part, we were silent again and continued writing. You could see people from the other room walking by and some of them even stopped in to mock us and said "What, you guys find this exam hard or something?". However, I was stunned and outraged when one guy, after handing his exam, came back into the room 5 minutes later, picked up his exam and went back to his desk to keep writing. I thought the lady was going to call him on it, but instead she just told him that if he actually wrote something, the chances are that he would get something right!!!!!! I coudn't believe it!!!! She allowed him to keep writing!! She was also letting people make phone calls, go out for smokes, etc. It was all ridiculous, both the exam and the supervision.

After the exam, there were so many complaints on the discussion board for that class that the prof created a whole 'nother board just for Midterm feedback. I even discovered that some of the questions were on the stuff that we hadn't taken yet (I was preparing for today's class and was reading over the chapters when I found some of the definitions from the test). We all expected to discuss it today in class. When our prof came into class today, she had the associate dean and another lady with her (I think she's that angry secretary that we call the "evaluation Nazi" because she rips the evaluations out of your hands before you are finished when you are actually working on giving a prof a good rating. But enough about my experiences with the Admin Admin). We all thought that they were there to talk to us about how bad the exam was. However, the forms we were handed were on academic misconduct. The associate dean said that he had had so many people come to him and complain about the overt cheating that was going on that he needed to address it. He said that he had reason to believe that there were about 12 individuals involved; the worst case he has ever seen in 10 years. The dean wanted him to scrap the entire class but he said he would rather not do that because he believes most people have integrity and he realizes that that would screw a lot of us over. Thank God for that! They got us to fill out forms saying which room we had written in and if we had observed any academic misconduct or anything out of the ordinary. I think most of the stuff was going down in the other classroom because I was talking to one of the other girls who was in there and she said there was a lot of talking and stuff. They've decided that because of everything that has gone on, they can't guarantee the integrity of the exam and so they are not even going to mark or return it and the extra marks will be shifted onto our next midterm and the final. So that means our next midterm is going to be huge because its not until March 17th!!!! (And in the faculty of Admin the prof can't change the date of a midterm after it has been submitted and that is why our prof wasn't there in the first place for our midterm because when she set the dates she didn't know she would be called to Australia. Her not being there is what started things out and snowballed into this huge thing!)

I'm telling you, its all a big mess and its ridiculous becuase some people were asking "what is academic misconduct and cheating, I'm so confused". I 'm sorry, but if you don't understand what cheating is or how to properly conduct yourself in an exam, you shouldn't be in university. GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That' my frustration of the day. Even if it doesn't make sense, at least I got to let it out.