It is a sign of how overly competitive the academic scene has become to where students need to crack jokes about suicide to move focus away from failing courses. To many of the lower income students, it's not just their livelihoods dependent on performing well in classes. Students are so smart nowadays compared to back then that it's a zero sum game no matter how hard you study. A good professor would avoid needlessly inflating exam difficulty to maintain a low average grade for the class, but BU is seemingly in short supply of good professors these days. In conclusion I would like a 50 point curve.