Vita est Quoque Brevis Pro Feces Cubile Ovis

I had my mediation exam this morning. Yeah, already. I'm finished. It seems like yesterday I just started. I don't think I learned much though. It was a bit of a twit class, even though it was a 4000 level course. The exam consisted of 3 pages, the first page was a paragraph which described a case between two individuals (who were married) who'd started a halfway type house and had decided they wanted to get a divorce and wanted to figure out how to still run the halfway house and see their kids. The second page consisted of 8 questions, of which you had to answer five. The first three questions were mandatory and were worth 70% of the exam:
1) List the stages of mediation.
2) Based on the previous case, what would you do in pre-mediation
3) If there was indication of domestic violence, what would you do

Of the ones you had to choose from I chose the following two questions (worth 30%)
1) Questions that begin with "Why" often put people on the defensive. Give your theory behind this.
2) Some other equally lame question that doesn't want to come to my poor aching brain right now.

I could have been finished in half an hour but I decided to big time flush out the answers, so for example, instead of just listing the stages of mediation a, b, c, d, I expanded each, gave reasons behind them, examples, blah blah blah.

The last page was a "self examination" (No, not a breast self examination...) wherein she asked us to judge ourselves - did we do all the assignments, did we show up for every class, were we prepared, did we involve ourselves in the discussion... out of 10, what would you give yourself? And this mark will go directly on my overall mark. Then it asked me what I would give myself on an overall mark for the class, and to justify it. So I highly expect that I've just given myself an A-.

I have to say, of the things I've learned, one of the biggest things is the fact that university does not teach you much. I'm fairly certain I could have written that exam 6 months ago and probably gotten roughly the same mark.

Anyway, it's done now. And I have a headache. And I see that I got paid a day early because tomorrow's a holiday, therefore I think sushi is in order. All in favour? Contrary minded, if any? Motion is carried.

5w (1r/2w x 7) 5c = 31m & aprox. 3K

Oh, and apparently I've decided to go back to MSVU again and use my scholarship money. Starting tomorrow. Conflict resolution and mediation. Wow.