Exams II<\/p>\n
To imply that this is a direct sequel[1] to the last blog post would not be technically accurate. It is more of a loose connection since this is the post-exam blog post, while the previous one was a pre-exam blog post. But there’s no need to be pedantic.[3]<\/p>\n
I guess what I should be saying is: “Exams are over, hurrah.”<\/p>\n
Yes, it is true, the examinations are over. Do I hear doubt in your hypothetical voice? No, for I stand before you, none worse for wear[4], having completed my exams, most short of blood, and emotionally disturbed. That’s pretty standard for exam periods actually, you have to get used to it.[6]<\/p>\n
What did I learn? I mean, apart from all that stuff that I learnt for the exams. I learnt that revision is good, eating is important, and the human mind has a remarkable ability for procrastination. Never before have I wasted so much time on such frivolous pursuits, such as the application of inductive reasoning to mental memes, or planning a party.[7]<\/p>\n
And yet it was a pleasant crazy time, which could also be said for my entire year. I guess since, for us, term time is over, I am, in practical purposes, no longer a first year.<\/p>\n
The second year, I am told, is extremely hard.[9] I am told the third year is even harder.[10]<\/p>\n
Yet, as surely as the sun rises, and that people make repetitive metaphors about the sun rising, the second year will no doubt be much like the first, with a large amount of work, surrounded by an engaging body of peers. I hope that during the summer I will come back refreshed and ready to hit the ground running[12].<\/p>\n
Then again, I could lose my glasses, and stumble around for three months practically blind, and it would \/still\/ be better than losing them during an exam week.<\/p>\n
[1] Disclaimer: This is not intended in anyway to be a Structured Query Language pun. However, some may interpret it in this way, and for this I apologise.[2]
\n[2] Not really.
\n[3] In the body of the blog post. Of course, in these footnotes I can be idle and pointless as I like, sometimes requiring to read the body of the post in order to understand the context of the footnote.
\n[4] Apart from the ways where I \/am\/[5] worse for the wear.
\n[5] This is not a regular expression, or more accurately it is, intending to only match the meaning of the word ‘am’. I guess it should be technically \/^am$\/ if I was being pedantic. Regular expressions are actually incredibly powerful, provided you understand them, otherwise they are a haze of meaningless symbols. Actually, that’s pretty much true for all of computer science.
\n[6] I \/should\/ clarify that all my blood donations seem to be during exam periods, and that exams, being high stress events, tend to trigger slightly more vigorous[11] mental states. I am assured that this is completely normal.
\n[7] Those who know me personally can probably already paraphrase that: there was going to be a big party, that all my friends were invited to. I even invited my best friend, but he was otherwise indisposed[8], and of course, I don’t have any other friends because of my brash demeanour. It is written down in some form of document, along with comments regarding my parents. That’s somewhat amusing.
\n[8]s\/disposed\/cinerated\/
\n[9] By second years.
\n[10] By third years.
\n[11] This footnote intentionally left blank.
\n[12] And no doubt spit out even more clich\u00e9s in these blog posts, you poor poor reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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