Student: "Ugh. I don't want to start the Final yet since I won't have time to finish it."
Me: "So what are you going to do with this time instead?"
Student: "I don't know maybe just show you these memes that my friend sent me this morning. Do you want to see them? Argh! But I have so much stuff to do; it's causing me so much stress."
Me: "Instead of stressing over the Final, why don't you open it and see how many questions are on there and how many you already know how to do."
Student [opens the Final]: "Oh, I already know how to do that one [student answers the problem]...and that one [student answers the problem]...Wait! Are you tricking me into starting the Final!?" (5/11/21)
