Response to Mike Adams essay "The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome"

Mike Adams’s essay on the dead grandmother syndrome is an amusing, sarcastic read. He states that the grandmothers in the U.S. are at great risk, due to the fact that they seem to die suddenly when their grandchildren have exams. He does a fantastic job giving a lot of examples as to why this is occurring. He claims, “a student who is failing a class and has a final coming up is more than 50 times more likely to lose a family member than an A student not facing any exams” (176). He also gives some ideas on how to fix the problem. Most of which aren’t attainable, but are comical none the less. Although it is apparent that this is a made up “problem”, one does see how this scenario has happened more than once. It is surely a frustrating situation for a professor to have to sort out.