Our desperation about our exams getting over can be best described in one line:
"Aahna Mehrotra is waiting for the clock to strike 6"
This was the status update of Aahna on facebook at about 12:56 pm, close to two and a half hours before the final test of our second year competence in law was to begin. It is safe to write, or as Bani put it, we are now 40% lawyers. The exams are over, effectivey for the next six months we do not have to study. Well, thats an idea !
The exams have been a stressful time for me as well. For four days it has replete with moments of desperation, sleepless nights and sleepy days, heavy intake unhealthy food and drinks (read Coke and Thums Up) and of course those high octane spirits after each exam got over. Although life seems to be a bit empty now that the exams are over but then we are so looking forward to being free till the internships come and spank our high spirits.
Personally the exams brought a whole lot of feelings wrapped together in what I hope is succcess. It started off with a bang with Contracts I where I did exceedingly well and in the process stunned myself. It was culmination of a great set of notes handed down to me by Manu (God bless her !), Aahna's and Deep's nagging for me to study and finally Praneeta's sweet gesture of giving me something sweet to eat before the exam along with a bear hug.
The next exam was that of Legal Language which was a bridge to the hard working subjects and a breather for me before I had to hit top gear with History of Courts and Law of Contratcs II. Again I rose to the occassion and gave a paper of the lifetime. I believe that this was my best English paper of my life. It was a rather simple paper and I guess thats why I did so well.
The next exam was that of History of Courts and I was more than prepared for it and had really worked hard for it. I never knew what was going to hit me. After the English exam I was completely looking forward to the History paper. I was completely up for the challenge and then it hit me..... THE BLACKOUT !
I was at my friends place for the night to study and I dont know what hit me. In fact I just blanked out through out the evening and could never ever recover for the next fifteen hours. I tried and tried but could not recall a word from my precious notes, which was being used by about a dozen of my friends (there is a little exaggeration in there but quite a bit is true). Anyways, as I never recovered, I paniced. In this khichdhi I called up my father and started howling which prompted my mother to do the same.
With so much going on around me and my blank mind accompanying me to the exam hall where I met about a zillion faces saying the same story to me- "I am about to flunk!!!". I relaxed just about a bit and entered the ruddy hall. I saw the paper and my heart sank. I messaged my father slyly without being caught and wrote about me doing quite well in the paper though I knew I would just about scrape through and i just did that.
Next up, Contratcs II and I was determined not to let myself down in anyway and my hardwork worked too. The paper could not have been better and I was so happy. I finished the paper before time and accesorised it well. I could not have been happier. Three out of four sounds great to me.
My tryst with the exams ended on a happy note and I could not have asked for more. The exams are over and for the next six months I dont have to look at another paper...how happy am I !
