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[gfish]

Interesting side-effect of the mass abandonment of watches in favor of using the clocks built into cellphones: kids today can't tell time during exams.

Also, it's pretty funny when, in the middle of a 3 hour exam in a big echo-y gymnasium filled with 400 students, someone's cellphone starts to play the Harry Potter theme. More exams need John Williams scoring.

Comments

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, think I did wear a watch through-out college. Usually on the inside of the wrist where it was less obvious when I was checking the time.

I take it these exams don't include the use of calculators? Always had the time on my HP.

-B.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

I was one of the few wearing a watch at Burning Man, and lots of people made use of it. I had no idea that telling people what time it was would be my "gift to the playa".

[adularia.livejournal.com]

And here I really want to replace my watch, because having to use my cell phone clock is getting incredibly old. I refuse to be one of those people (do they exist? oh, probably) who takes their Sidekick into the shower.

[basal-surge.livejournal.com]

Watches are in the way, and fragile. I've never had the money for the really tough ones, and I suspect I'd break them anyway. Every watch I ever had, I had to replace straps multiple times, and/or replace the watch because of impact damage. Last couple just randomly died, so I just went to using my cellphone, which because it lives in a pocket, isn't at as much hazard as watches.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

*giggle* That poor student must've been mortified. Made *me* giggle, though. I could use some John Williams scoring right now.