Somehow…
Over the last couple of months, I’ve lived on a diet of stress and caffeine. Hair has fallen out. There were tears - TEARS - about school work! I was convinced that this semester’s results weren’t going to be as great as last semester’s results.
Last semester, it was 4 high distinctions and a distinction. I thought that this semester, it would be 1 HD and, if I was bloody lucky, 4 distinctions. Low distinctions, at that. Credits, more likely.
I didn’t think I was going to fail but I was not happy at the prospect of credits. This is my second IT degree. I came back to uni so that this time I could do it right. Four distinctions and a HD would have been a relief, given how hard the semester was, but not grades I’d be ecstatic with. Still, a distinction average would be acceptable.
Exams ended. I had one lousy week of holiday before summer school started again. Most of the time was spent catatonic. Sat on my bed and stared out the window. Slept. Lots of sleeping! Occassionally played video games but not as much as I thought I would. Cleaned the house. Was fairly zombie-like, overall.
The morning of results came and I slept in. That’s how brain dead I was. I didn’t even remember, after all the stress I went through, that the results would be out that morning. Eventually was woken up by a message from a friend asking me if I was happy or if it was time to take Accounting.
I stared at that message for about three minutes wondering what the hell he was going on about before I realised “Oh!! Results are out!!” and he wanted to know if I was happy with mine.
Turn on laptop. Takes an eternity to load. Log into my uni account.
One of the nice things Swinburne does with their online portal is - on results day - redirect you to your results page as soon as you log in.
Page loads. My eyes are still half-glued together after 9 hours snoozing. But I can still make out the straight line of HDs down the page.
Hehhhh….*dies*