how was my day

i woke up 8.15am! i'd set my alarm 7.30am... which was not a good sign. i made myself 2 slices of bread with margarine and peanut butter. my usual breakfast diet. but i barely had one bite, had 2 trips to the toilet and had to dash off. :(

well anyway i reached the campus, only to take a long way round to reach the exam location. it is at the UniHall, which is one of the larger rooms on campus. the location was hosting the exam for more than one subject i was certain. at least 3 i speculate. i was given a random number corresponding to the table i was to be seated at.

so i sat down and wrote my stuff. i was seated near the back, closer to the entrance. right in front, on the stage, were 2 whiteboards on either side of the stage. on them were scribble handwritten notices. they were too far for me to read properly. above the whiteboards were a clock each, and a sign that reads "CHEATING LEADS TO EXCLUSION". i noticed people taking their exams next to me had different color-coded answer booklets. they had it so random that you won't know who will sit beside you. sure prevents cheating somehow.

the paper was 2h 15min long. i left 15minutes before the end. section A had me crapping about 10 questions, 3 marks each. section B involved choosing one out of two questions. the answer was to be in essay form, substantiating an argument for the question that has been chosen. for the 1000 words we could write(or had to, whatever), i had put down approximately 3 pages worth of words. that would rough out to 10 words a line, 18 lines per page. the grand sum would be around 540 words. barely half the total amount they told us to. but hey at 3 pages it would already be quite lengthy. any longer i think the marker would have fallen asleep marking!

and i'd gotten back my test paper finally. the one i'd failed (4/10 remember?) and it seems nothing can be helped. my syntax was so bad i probably would have gotten more marks deducted had i went back to try and get more marks. jason got his back too. at 7.8/10 it's quite reasonable for his calibre. but then again he'd have said he could have done better. so i'd been working on another aspect of the subject, trying to iron things out while consulting jason. fortunately he was patient enough to explain some of the concepts to me once more.

that's about all i want to talk about today. not good day at all.

*sigh i also messed up*