It's over

My five-day exam is over!
If I did well, it means that my last exam ever is over.
What I've got to say about that?
Yeyeyeyeye-yeyeye-yeyeye ho-ho-ho-ho-hoooo!

Exam - Danish style: 2

Today is the fourth day of my last exam in the MSc program. Yes, you read correctly, 4th.

This is a 5-day take home assignment and it basically works like that.. They upload a case, (usually) describing a company and important relevant information about it, plus the exam questions. Then you have a certain amount of time (I have had from 12 hours to 5 days) to write your solution and upload it back on the website.

Meanwhile you can use any source of information you can think of (including your classmates), but trust me, even this does not make it easier than the ordinary exam.

Well, now the end is near... but, please, keep your fingers crossed for it to be a happy ending! :)

2 a.m. and I'm still awake, writing..

I'm sitting in my room, trying to get some work done while fighting with sleepiness.
Music is soothingly flowing from the (online) radio.
I have just noticed that it is 02:00 a.m., when this song starts to play:

So, I start singing to myself: "breeeeeathe, just breeeeeeeathe" and hope for some writing inspiration.

Exam - Danish style: 1

This is how an average open-book 4-hour exam looks like in Denmark.

You are allowed to use any source of information that you find appropriate.. including the internet. You can also write on your laptop, instead of paper. Then you upload your file on a USB stick (which they give you on your way into the exam room).

I suppose that's not something that one can experience in Denmark only.. but I never heard of such a practice in Bulgaria. Also, for my open-book exam in Belgium I was forced to print some 1000 pages, because: "if you are reading from your laptop, I can never be sure whether you're not on the internet"..

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* Roberta, thank you for making this (though blurry ;)) photo for me! :)

Years in school 1

Paradoxes, ironies and other unfortunate facts from the last 19 years.

Quite often in my university years I have skipped lectures, so that I have enough time for studying.

Chillin'

If this picture was on Facebook, I would have tagged myself..

 

* Picture - thanks to Marto... again! :)

Attempt

Thoughts about today's exam..

Kinda tired

About a week ago, a few days before my second exam, a friend of mine told me: "you know that what you're doing to yourself is called sleep deprivation.. and it has been used as a torture technique?"..

Well, things have changed since his question: 3 exams have passed (two still to go) and now I'm sleeping.. sometimes...

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Being positive..

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Panic

Oh!

My!

God!

Today is the first exam from my scary exam marathon.. 

I will need all the luck in the world in the next two weeks..

So, if you have any to spare or borrow, I will be extremely grateful!

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Stay calm!

Weird feeling in the morning..

..I see myself talking with friends on a familiar spot.. Hmm, yes, that's it - I am in front of the building of my faculty in Bulgaria.. but the building has a blue KU Leuven sign... ok, so my faculty has somehow moved to Belgium..

All my friends are suddenly gone and now I only have strangers around me. A teacher that looks like one of the cashiers in Colruyt appears and says we are about to start the exam in "Flemish poetry and statistical calculations of transportation costs related to game theory and European integration"...

After a fierce cold-sweat struggle with the test I never studied for, I wake up... Ooookay, that's gonna be an exciting month till the exam session is over...

If exams were monsters..

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Erasmus = party?

I just attended the last class in my life...
Unless I fail an exam - then I'll have more chances to enjoy the academic experience in a classroom... The thing is, in my KUL reality the possibilities to fail are quite promising...
So, please, wish me luck with winning the fight, 'cause I am starting to feel extremely tiny and pretty damn scared...

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