Sometimes, university professors say the darndest things.
For instance, “There’s a medical certificate [about ten days] before the date of the exam, and a medical certificate [about ten days] after the date of the exam, but no medical certificate [close to] the date of the exam.”
This, coming from someone who has been undergraduate chair of a department.
There’s something to be said about remarkably inane adherence to rules.
(And that’s a paraphrase and not a direct quotation, not to be confused with Dr. Stewart.)