Dear Kid,

The exam covers WHICH chapters?? It's all about expectations DearKidLoveMom.comThe thing is, it’s all about expectations.

When the professor says the midterm will cover chapters 4-12 and the midterm actually covers chapters 8-20, people (and by people I mean students) tend to get upset. It doesn’t feel fair. You feel misled, maybe even lied to.

When the professor says the midterm will cover chapters 4-12 and the midterm actually covers chapters 4-8, people (and by people I mean students) tend to get upset. It doesn’t feel fair. You wonder why you spent all that time on chapters 9-20 when you could have been going over 4-8 or playing Game of Thrones.

When the professor says the midterm will cover chapters 4-12 and the midterm actually covers chapters 4-12, people (and by people I mean students) have to find something else to gripe about.

It’s all about expectations.

“When you bite into a chocolate truffle, you don’t want to find oat bran.”
― Laura Kalpakian, Educating Waverley

When the weather forecaster says it’s going to snow three inches and there isn’t a cloud in the sky…wait, bad example. No one really believes weather forecasters all that much.

Hoping today meets all your expectations.

Love, Mom