If spending a beautiful weekend, which held innumerable promises, on reading up totally screwed up chapters of a book that someone wrote whenever he was frustrated with his wife, and reading powerpoint slides which was made by someone with the creativity of a 3rd grade kid, was not enough, there was a free monday afternoon also that was spent on this futile exercise. The entire procedure was so interesting that reading the stuff continuously for half an hour without dozing off would be considered a heroic achievement.
As usual, the learning process for me gained momentum only on monday afternoon. The learning and the periodic dozing off progressed at satisfactory rates until dinner time. After dinner at 9 PM, I got back to the studies, and in another half an hour, wolverine found my room dark, and yours truly fast asleep on the bed.
However, all was well planned. The alarm sounded as planned at 4 AM, and I was back on track. Occasional splashes of cold water helped in prolonging the period of assimilation of knowledge (?) between periodic dozing off. Everything was well taken care of, a day well begun, and I am safely seated in the exam hall 5 minutes before the scheduled exam time (hurray).
And then, the shock wave hits. The infamous question paper, described in enough detail by wolverine, is thrust into my hands. In five minutes, I realized that I am no better off than any random guy who stumbled into the exam hall and was asked to answer the paper. Interpolation of interpolated values, guesswork, absurd simplifications, and so on. Needless to say, it left me devastated, and a major chunk of my class was in no different state.
I think the best way to wind up would be with the words that Mr. Caninus wrote for the third question:
Answering this question requires one to learn up a formula that is so huge, that it is unethical for you to expect us to learn it.More will follow as soon as the much awaited answer scripts are graded and returned.
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