Murphy's Teaching Laws

• The clock in the instructor's room will be wrong.
• Disaster will occur when visitors are in the room.
• A subject interesting to the teacher will bore students.
• The time a teacher takes in explaining is inversely proportional to the  information retained by students.
• A meeting's length will be directly proportional to the boredom the speaker  produces.
• Students who are doing better are credited with working harder. If children  start to do poorly, the teacher will be blamed.
• The problem child will be a school board member's son.
• When the instructor is late, he will meet the principal in the hall.
• If the instructor is late and does not meet the principal, the instructor is  late to the faculty meeting.
• New students come from schools that do not teach anything.
• Good students move away.
• When speaking to the school psychologist, the teacher will say: "weirdo"  rather than "emotionally disturbed".
• The school board will make a better pay offer before the teacher's union  negotiates.
• The instructor's study hall be the largest in several years.
• The administration will view the study hall as the teacher's preparation  time.
• Clocks will run more quickly during free time.
• On a test day, at least 15% of the class will be absent
• If the instructor teaches art, the principal will be an ex-coach and will  dislike art. If the instructor is a coach, the principal will be an ex-coach who  took a winning team to the state.
• Murphy's Law ill go into effect at the beginning of an evaluation.

Weiner's Law of Libraries
There are no answers, only cross references.

Laws of Class Scheduling

• If the course you wanted most has room for "n" students, you will be the  "n+1" to apply.
• Class schedules are designed so that every student will waste maximum time  between classes.
• Corollary: When you are occasionally able to schedule two  classes in a row, they will be held in classrooms at opposite ends of the  campus.
• A prerequisite for a desired course will be offered only during the semester  following the desired course.
  

Laws of Applied Terror

• When reviewing your notes before an exam, the most important ones will be  illegible.
• The more studying you did for the exam, the less sure you are as to which  answer they want
• Eighty percent of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed  about the one book you didn't read.
• The night before the English history midterm, your Biology instructor will  assign two hundred pages on planarian.
  Corollary: Every instructor assumes  that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor's course.
• If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
  Corollary:  If you are given a take home exam, you will forget where you live.
• At the end of the semester you will recall having enrolled in a course at  the beginning of the semester--and never attending.

First Law of Final Exams

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during  the math final.
Corollary: If you bring extra batteries, they will be  defective.

Second Law of Final Exams

In your toughest final, the most distractingly attractive student in class  will sit next to you for the first time.

Seeger's Law
Anything in parentheses can be ignored.

Natalie' Law of Calculus
You never catch on until after the test.

Seit's Law of Higher Education
The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during you last  semester.

Rule of the Term Paper
The book or periodical most vital to the completion of your term paper will  be missing from the library.
Corollary: If it is available, the most  important page will be torn out.

Duggan's Law of Scholarly Research
The most valuable quotation will be the one for which you cannot determine  the source.
Corollary: The source for an un-attributed quotation will appear  in the most hostile review of you work.

Rominger's Rules for Students

• The more general the title of a course, the less you will learn from it.
• The more specific a title is, the less you will be able to apply it later.

Hansen's Library Axiom
The closest library doesn't have the material you need.

London's Law of Libraries
No matter which book you need, it's on the bottom shelf.

Rominger's Rules for Teachers

• When a student asks for a second time if you have read his book report, he  did not read the book.
• If attendance is mandatory, a scheduled exam will produce increased  absenteeism. If attendance is optional, an exam will produce persons you have  never seen before.

Penza's law about math's lessons
The porter will knock at  the door at the most crucial point of the lesson.