I remember a Stanford professor (Mark Mancall) asking a roomful of freshmen if we were nervous about the exam the next day. (The course was the wonderfully titled "Structured Liberal Education," SLE for short; the students in it all lived in the same dormitory, and we were all a little bit crazy.)
So he asked us if were nervous about the exam, our first in the course.
"Yes," we cried.
"Good," he said. "That's part of the ritual."
So he asked us if were nervous about the exam, our first in the course.
"Yes," we cried.
"Good," he said. "That's part of the ritual."
