I am sooooo happy...done with my exams. I don't think I have felt like this for any exam in my life. I don't know the reason and I also don't want to analyse it. This feeling may not remain tomorrow and so I don't want it to go undocumented. That is the reason I am writing this blog today itself.
Hmm... last year I finally decided to study something and so applied for MA Sociology through distance education form Osmania University. I have no answer for "what will u do after this?" kind of questions. Anyways something to keep me occupied apart from my job.
My experience with these exams have been very different. I didn't attend many classes either since the ones I attended didn't seem very interesting. So had to do all the studying alone. Not that I had never studied alone in my life but there were always people with whom I could jointly at least crib about the subjects (even if not discuss ;)). I tried some ways to make it interesting. It is actually an interesting subject but if one has to read it for the sake of an exam it gets tedious.
I was lucky enough that my office encourages me to study. I was even asked if I needed study leave before the exam but I knew I would not put it to use. Rather I go to office (one place that makes me forget my worries, if I have any). At least my mind is not a devil's workshop when I am there. Its a different world altogether.
OK let me come back to my exams.
I thought I would start studying well in advance, I did, but not at a consistent pace. As usual , like any other previous exams , at the last moment I felt had I studied earlier I would have completed. My other problem was with my writing. I have a bad handwriting (bad may seem a small word for some of them who have seen my handwriting;)). And I have not written a theory exam since the past 5 years. Sitting in the examination hall for 3 hours seemed a nightmare to me. Memorizing answers is something I have forgotten completely:D.
The exams came and I was really scared before my first exam. I was missing my college days . During graduation, I (rather all of us) was so used to studying in the last moment. But it was easier because I used to attend classes regularly. And another thing was during exams, just before the exams, my friends used to tell me the important points and we used to memorize it like that.People whom I remembered before every exam are Princy, Manju, Sharad and Romesh. I remember how they used to create shortcuts and help us memorize the answers. Should thank them for that:). I also remember an exam when I had prepared only one unit of the five and when I went to the busstop I got to know that we did not have that unit for that exam. Still, I managed to clear the exam ;).
I did miss the days I prepared for my civil services exam as well. It was not theory paper though I did prepare a little for the mains :D. It was fun (not the result), but the preparation. Good old days ... Shilpa, Ramya, Ishani and me(brings a smile on my face)...I didnt clear my exams but did gain a lot of gyan from those days. Days worth remembering :)
As told by somebody - ' Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true. '
More posts to come as I am done with my exams (feels like a huge burden is off my head,at least for now).
