Exams during race unfair

We all came to this school to learn, to engage our academic selves and to embark on our future careers. \nBut not this week.\nIn case you haven't noticed, Little 500, the world's greatest college intramural event, takes place this weekend. For me, this means supporting my favorite bike team, blowing off as many classes as I can and party-hopping until I can't take it any longer. Yes, all you anti-fun people can scoff at my anti-school attitude, but for one week out of the entire year, I am prepared to put my academics on hold while enjoying my time in college.\nBut not this year.\nIt seems as though I have come across some bad news: I have a test Friday at 3:45 pm, only 15 minutes before the women's race begins. This is not cool.\nAfter whining and making excuses (I am the assistant to the assistant to a person who assists the lap counter), my teacher, who shall remain nameless, is preventing me from enjoying my time at the track. Seems unfair, doesn't it?\nI just sat there and got pissed off about this for awhile, but then I realized that it's not only unfair to me, it's unfair to the riders Friday. Brace yourselves, I am about to turn pseudo-feminist on you.\nAs most of us know, the men's race is Saturday, a day when no one has exams or papers to worry about. And the women's race, well that's Friday, a day when people do have classes, exams and papers to worry about. So while everyone has the benefit of going to the men's race Saturday, some of us can't go to the women's race simply because it takes place Friday. In terms of scheduling, the men get the upper hand and the women, well, they just get shafted. That's definitely not fair.\nSome people might think that the men's race is more important, but those people are probably buddies with my grandfather, a man who thinks women's sports are a big joke. And apparently, my professor, as well as the rest of the schmucks making students attend class Friday afternoon, must think the men's race is more important, too.\nI do understand that not everyone thinks the Little 500 is that important. This girl in my advertising class calls it "overachievers and underachievers week," overachievers being the riders and underachievers being the drunk students -- me. But to some of us, it is important. In fact, it's one of the most important weekends all year.\nMoving the women's race from Friday to another day is highly unlikely, although maybe that would give our now-famed tree-pulling, wire-hanging, chest-flashing rioters another chance to show us what they're really made of. And canceling class the Friday of the Little 500 is also a highly unlikely event -- I mean, we don't even get off for Labor Day.\nSo aside from that, why can't professors be more flexible? I would be more than willing to take this exam at 8 a.m. or a more convenient time. It's only one day out of the entire year, is it really all that hard? I think not. Professors, please cut us some slack. We're only college students once.\nSo please, while you are out Friday cheering on the riders and making memories that will last a lifetime, think of me. I'll be taking an exam as fast as I can in the hopes that maybe I'll make it to the track for the last few minutes of the race. That is, unless my teacher reads this and changes my exam time.