My reading list for my next exam (which takes place in less than two weeks) has been rejected for the third time. I don’t get it. That’s the only professor who’s making such trouble and I have no idea what he’s getting at. I am pissed and frustrated.
Update: Fourth version just went out. Let’s see what happens.

“I don’t like surprises.”
“Really? I love them myself. I mean, to me everything is a surprise. (…) I mean, I even surprise myself sometimes.”
Draal & Cmdr. Ivanova, Babylon 5, »Voices of Authority«
Well, I did surprise myself today when I scored a 1.3 in my final (oral) psychology exam (that’s a 3.7 for you US readers). It was astonishingly easy (for what I expected) and when the professor said, “Well, time’s up” I was actually a little disappointed because I was just getting into it.
Anyway, that leaves my overall college GPA …

Just to let you know I am still alive and kickin’ … since I’ve been told by some people that my lack of blogging has led them to assume something had happened to me. Funny, isn’t it (and probably a worthy topic for a sociology homework ).
College
My final thesis has been graded by my second corrector and she’s given me a 1.3!!!!! I almost fell off my chair when I read it online (for non-Germans: our best grade is 1.0 and the failing grade is 5.0). So to my …

One exam done, six to go. Another written exam this Friday. Now, I felt unprepared last week but that is nothing to how I feel now.
Those dozens of books, as annoying as they might have been, at least gave me the feeling that I really had tried to prepare. And out of forty or so books you can at least draw some intelligent stuff. Hey, I mean, I understood all the questions and I feel while I might not have hit the bullseye with my answers, I might have written …

In 24 hours I will sit my first of two written final exams (the other one is next week on Friday). I am scared senseless right now, running up and down, glancing at my index cards and trying frantically to remember all that stuff … and at the same time I try to refrain of following in Laura Roslin’s footsteps and tearing up the cards after I read them.
I’ve never failed an academic exam before and it would be the worst timing in the world to start now. …