Random Synapses

It’s been a month since my last recorded Random Synapse, but what a month has it been!!

Let me briefly explain a few things about university activity here. Each semester’s final exams are scheduled in a three or four week period after the end of the semester. Upon completing all the exams in the last semester in university, graduates are supposed to pass a comprehensive exam in a few specialty subjects of their choice, as well as turning in a research paper and presenting it to a committee. Only then the bachelor diploma can be awarded.

I’m attending two day-time faculties (colleges for my American readers) in this city. The study programmes are 8- and 9-semester long, respectively. Right now I have completed the 8th semester in both, and the past six weeks were packed with exams at both of them. I had a very nice graduation festivity, then the banquet (prom), and today I took the comprehensive exam in Marketing Fundamentals, Marketing Strategies, and Financial Management. I am soooooo glad exams are over!!

The last step in order to receive my diploma is to write and turn in my research paper. Since I am esentially presenting the same paper at both faculties, and the second one ends in February 2006, I have decided to do the presentation at both faculties then. There’s plenty of time to work hard on it. Besides, it would have been pointless to rush things and present it now, then work on it some more for the graduation in February; I would have felt that I presented something that was esentially incomplete, which could have benefitted from a few more months of work.

Anyway, I am a happy university graduate. Or, as my Yahoo! Messenger status says, “I are a collidge graduated.”

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