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Exam-fun and almost holidays
Hey everyone! If someone is still reading this site anymore, that is! :o) It's been a pretty slow koalaplanet-semester!
I'm almost done with my exams now - just one more to go... Statistics tomorrow at 1430! (Wish me luck!)
Really looking forward to the break - however much of a break I get... I'm looking for full-time jobs at the moment. Reckon working full-time, studying part-time and earning money would be better than studying full-time and racking up more of a study debt!!!
But like I said, looking forward to the break. Maria and I both need it! We sat down and thought about it for a few seconds and realised we hadn't had any time off together - without having a very insane social calender - for about one-and-a-half years now!
That is, last (Australian) summer break we got married - so things were a bit hectic! And last winter break (July), just vanished in a little puff of smoke. So yes, we're looking forward to it!
Maria has already finished her exams and is currently starting to cool down a little after the most insane semester in her engineering degree. The final assignment she handed in was a 400-page group assignment, in which they designed a go-cart-like racing car!!!!! Fairly hardcore!
On my side of things, I've had quite a memorable exam period! At least in terms of my corporate accounting exam!
Corporate accounting is the hardest course in my degree, and the exam was worth a fair bit! I was pretty well prepared for it, except for one little detail... I hadn't double-checked the exam location! So when I came to the uni's main examination venue, all ready with calculator and bean-counting knowledge - there was no sign of my fellow book-fudgers... They were all in another room, about 200 meters away - where they should be!
Being a Saturday evening, the libraries - and consequently all computers on campus - were closed. So I needed to call someone (Maria) to check where my exam would be. But I had left my cell phone in the car. Short on time, I jogged to the student centre - which students in exam-distress are advised to do - only to find that it was closed!
Ever so slightly paniced (I didn't want to do the course again next semester) I borrowed a mobile off a nice person outside the student centre. Maria told me the location of the exam - just next to where I'd been before jogging across campus! So, barefoot with sandals in hand I started sprinting across campus again... I was already late! Up the stairs to the examination room and... Darkness!!! Nothing or nobody there!
I ran down and outside and borrowed another mobile - this time from a couple who was trying to have a romantic evening out (on campus :o) and didn't need a sweating, short-on-breath, stressed-out student in their lives. But they were nice about it...
Maria once again confirmed that I was supposed to be upstairs where there appeared to be nothing going on... So I ran up and to my bewilderment discovered a hallway I'd missed the previous time I was up there! This hallway took me straight to the exam - just a little too late... But luckily the invigilators let me sit the exam! They must have felt bad for me seeing how I was all dripping and out of breath from running across campus twice (it's a really, really big campus)... Invigilators (yes, it is a word) are my friends!!! :D
It went well after all!!! My ever-so-tiny mishap didn't affect my performance beyond a 10-minute cooling-down period and I walked out of there reasonably happy, and certain I won't have to come back for corporate accounting ever again!
And that's my story! :o)
Posted by Marius Berg Askildsen
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