Exam Update
Feb. 12th, 2005 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anigoWell, I survived.
I crammed most of the day yesterday, except when we went to my office Christmas party. I got home from that at about 10:30 and studied until midnight, setting the alarm for 6:00 am. I woke, got up, made coffee and started studying again. The plan was to study for 3 hours, take The Kid to basket ball at 9:00 and make it to the exam for 9:30. So.. by about 7:30 I was feeling fairly comfortable with the material. I walked into The Hole to check where the exam was and to check the answers for the trial exam I'd just finished.
No internet connection.
Where's the exam!?!? What about the answers?!?!?
I called Dick who is working today and walked him through the screens. Dick's a bit of a luddite and it's times like these I have humongous sympathy for Help Desk people. We finally finished up walking through the screens at 8:30. (I did a fairly decent job on the trial exam.) But it's 8:30 and I"m still in my jammies and the kid needs to be at basketball in half an hour!!
So we rush around like mad. I throw my books in the car, expecting to be able to get to school with about 10 minutes to spare and be able to cram the terms that don't want to stick in my mind. The Kid is 5 minutes late for Basketball, but that's not a big deal. I drop her off and head to my exam. Dodedodedo... SHIT! I've taken the wrong exit! In my worked-up-ed-ness I've taken the exit I usually take for work out of habit. It goes to Dartmouth, school is in Bedford. Bedford's on the other side of the harbour from Dartmouth and there are no exits between here and there. Shit Shit Shit Shit.
So, I rationalize that I'm here now, there's not a whole lot I can do about it and wacking myself in the head will only cause blurred vision. I make it to school and not only do I not have 10 minutes to cram, I'm late. Everybody's in the auditorium already started. I am horrified. I am so horrified for one split second I consider not going to the exam. But only for a split second. I walk in (of course EVERYBODY in the auditorium looks at me) take off my coat, find a desk and start the exam.
I feel confident I passed.
That's all that matters at this point.
And that's not so bad. :)
I crammed most of the day yesterday, except when we went to my office Christmas party. I got home from that at about 10:30 and studied until midnight, setting the alarm for 6:00 am. I woke, got up, made coffee and started studying again. The plan was to study for 3 hours, take The Kid to basket ball at 9:00 and make it to the exam for 9:30. So.. by about 7:30 I was feeling fairly comfortable with the material. I walked into The Hole to check where the exam was and to check the answers for the trial exam I'd just finished.
No internet connection.
Where's the exam!?!? What about the answers?!?!?
I called Dick who is working today and walked him through the screens. Dick's a bit of a luddite and it's times like these I have humongous sympathy for Help Desk people. We finally finished up walking through the screens at 8:30. (I did a fairly decent job on the trial exam.) But it's 8:30 and I"m still in my jammies and the kid needs to be at basketball in half an hour!!
So we rush around like mad. I throw my books in the car, expecting to be able to get to school with about 10 minutes to spare and be able to cram the terms that don't want to stick in my mind. The Kid is 5 minutes late for Basketball, but that's not a big deal. I drop her off and head to my exam. Dodedodedo... SHIT! I've taken the wrong exit! In my worked-up-ed-ness I've taken the exit I usually take for work out of habit. It goes to Dartmouth, school is in Bedford. Bedford's on the other side of the harbour from Dartmouth and there are no exits between here and there. Shit Shit Shit Shit.
So, I rationalize that I'm here now, there's not a whole lot I can do about it and wacking myself in the head will only cause blurred vision. I make it to school and not only do I not have 10 minutes to cram, I'm late. Everybody's in the auditorium already started. I am horrified. I am so horrified for one split second I consider not going to the exam. But only for a split second. I walk in (of course EVERYBODY in the auditorium looks at me) take off my coat, find a desk and start the exam.
I feel confident I passed.
That's all that matters at this point.
And that's not so bad. :)