Exams!!!

The 3 weeks in Bombay flew by like I had expected. A major advantage that I seemed to possess as an international student who has done his schooling from India was that I had studied much of what we were taught in the first year in my high school. Considering this, there was not much work load that lingered above my head and all I did in Bombay, before the exams, was catching up with family and friends. Everyone wanted to hear the stories, about my university, about my friends, classes, Birmingham and so on. For a moment, I even felt like I was advertising for Aston university as I had spoken so much about it to so many people!

However, as they say, all good things do come to an end and before we knew it, it was time for the examinations. Fortunately there were only 4 papers to write as there were submissions for the other 2. As I had said earlier, having studies most of the syllabus earlier made studying for these examinations really simple. All I had to do was brush up my concepts, solve a paper or two and I was done! Ironically I could not do more than this as I had reached my room a day before the start of the exams! The next 2 weeks were probably the most intense it had ever been at Aston and yet, there was no pressure felt as such. One by one the exams got over and to a certain extent it was fun giving the exams as what we enjoyed the most was group study, sitting up late in the library, taking coffee or pizza breaks, chit-chatting and laughing away to de-stress our minds and thus, we never felt the intensity of the exams, and on the contrary, enjoyed every bit of it. The exams had come to an end by the end of the January and the routine was back to square one, parties, friends and of course, a little bit of studies.