i forgot to mention a funny story from yesterday...

we were in dr. kitterman's class...both classes were combined, so it was about 45 of us, and we were planning on having class for 2 hours, starting at 8:00.
the sky was filled with dark clouds outside and it was quite windy. dr. kitterman said at the beginning of class that it would probably be storming by the time class was over.
at 9:15, a siren went off outside. the idea of it being a tornado siren crossed my mind, but i quickly dismissed it as something else, because it sounded nothing like the one that went off a couple of weeks ago. it was one of those sirens that every town has that goes off every now and then, but to this day i've never really known what it's for. the type the fire dept. uses or something.
but, two girls in the class thought differently. these girls are fairly overbearing...not necessarily in a bad way...but it a take-charge, choleric, type A, control freak kind of way. they heard the siren and immediately frantically spoke up. (they were sitting next to each other which manified their assertions) "UUHHH...DR. KITTERMAN...IS THAT A TORNADO SIREN? YES...YEAH...THAT'S DEFINITELY A TORNADO SIREN. WE BETTER GET OUT OF HERE. THERE'S A TORNADO..." this got the class murmuring, and dr. kitterman more/less panicked. she caved in under the pressure of these girls and just sort of shrugged her shoulders in defeat and said "well, alright then, i guess we better go."
and with that, all 45 of us jumped at the chance and started filing out of the classroom 35 minutes early. i'm pretty sure the entire class knew it wasn't a tornado siren...all of us were shrugging and shaking our heads in disbelief, but we got out of the class while we still could. across the hall, a professor came out and asked us (all 45 of us) "are they wanting us to leave?" the 2 girls weren't at the head of the pack to answer (they were probably out of the building already headed for the nearest storm shelter), so all he got were a mix of "we have no idea"s and "probably not"s or "maybe..don't ask us"s. every other class in the building was carrying on as usual, giving us weird looks as we walked out of the building, excitedly discussing what had just unfolded.
i heard later that our professor had come to her senses and caught a bunch of students who were still downstairs and was talking things over with them...but i have yet to hear whether or not class continued...i was out of the building as fast as possible.