MORE FINALS DRAMA

So, I'm already sweating the Spinoza final tomorrow night and then I receive this e-mail this morning from the professor:

I don't know if this message will get through -- Blackboard is behaving badly at the moment. I am in the process of working up the final exam essay questions. You should already have a sense of what topics to study for the final exam, and you know that I am expecting you to be able to marshal the appropriate concepts and arguments from Spinoza to explain his thinking about those topics. One thing I forgot to mention in class is that whereas for the midterm we were still just struggling to figure out what Spinoza was saying, now we have the full account under our belts and should have a decent sense of what his philosophical system is all about. So I will be asking you to critique Spinoza's thinking in these final exam essays -- which is in keeping with the format of comprehensive exam essays. You will need to argumentatively justify your own thinking about whether or not Spinoza's thinking is sound and cogent.

In other words, I did some thinking last night and realized the test wasn't difficult enough. I decided to change that. Happy finals week! Actually, I shouldn't stress this too much. If I've done my homework (check!), then this shouldn't be a problem. However, oftentimes there's something hidden behind these messages, i.e., there's a question he wants to put on the exam most of us probably aren't prepared to answer and he wants to justify asking it. Hmmmm... devious professors everywhere! What's a poor poor graddy to do? Mhuahahahaha!