I had one hell of a day today, really. Got up at something like seven, did some last minute studying, packed my things, then left for uni at about eleven. Took some books back to the library, handed in my paper, took some more books back to a different library (xD), and THEN I went to my exam (quite out of breath by that point ( Read more... )

The other day a rather funny thing happened to me - well, it wasn't funny at first, because I lost my student ID in one of the lecture halls at university. I was writing an exam for German, and for that we usually have to have our student IDs lying on the table next to us. Guess what happened? Stupid me left it in the lecture hall after the exam of ( Read more... )

I wrote it. The paper I mean. I hate every sentence of it,  but at least it's over and done with. Now I'm going to put my feet up for the rest of the day. :) I wish everyone a lovely Sunday!

Well, it's official. Or, in any case, as far as one can consider these things official. The fact of the matter is though, that I can't write academic papers in German. It's such a slow process I find it agonising to write even a sentence - and even when that one sentence is finally written, most of the time I feel either like a) a five-year-old has ( Read more... )

Quite possibly, I have the sweetest university professor I have ever had in one of my courses this semester. This is what he just emailed us:

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Well, that was a spectacular waste of an evening. Of an entire weekend, come to think of it. God, I hate uni sometimes ... But let's start at the beginning ( Read more... )

So, turns out I got an A on History of English - thank God it's over :D! I'd been putting that exam off for aaaaages! And then it turned out that it wasn't that hard anyway xD! Life can be strange sometimes - especially life at uni, I get the impression ( Read more... )

Well ... I probably did xD. At some point. Possibly while I was studying and cursing the entire educational system. BUT NOT TODAY! Because today it turns out that there may actually be a few people in this institution that share my interests! *cue sad music for the eternal outsider* xD Anyway, here's the evidence:


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Things that I will finally be able to do tonight, after having written the Exam of Horror aka Miriam's Great Literary Challenge of 2012 ( Read more... )

Oh my God IT'S OVER!!!! I've officially written all the exams I meant to write in the middle of term and I just feel - exhausted, relieved, happy, a tiny bit disoriented ... I don't know which feeling to pick :D! But one thing that is definitely clear: I CAN FINALLY HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE AGAIN!!! YAYYYY ( Read more... )