The finals started yesterday. Not very happy with how I felt I did for the Information System Planning paper but as my darling keeps on telling me, past is past. Let it go.Sigh! Okay, I’m letting it be and pray that my result won’t be too bad. Praying hard to have at least a B for that paper. Please!!!!
While I was sort of mourning for this paper, I went to check for my midterm result for Database paper. My first attempt was a disaster. For the first time ever in my higher learning experience, I got a C minus. Sob sob! Luckily, the lecturer felt that we all deserved a second chance and I worked hard for it by redoing the questions and some past test. On that day of test, I was quite panicked seeing the questions that were not really what I expected. However, I thought with my effort I should be able to get at least a B and I was praying hard for it. When I checked my result yesterday, I was shocked to see an A. Hu hu! Me? An A? From C-? I looked at it for a few more seconds while my darling was counting how many among my course-mates got A. Haha! I really can’t believe I finally got A for this database, though it’s only 20% from the total, but to me it’s an achievement. As I always said to my other group members, I’m just not so strong in database, programming and anything that deals with logic. Even one of my group members is surprised to see how much I have improved. Hehe!
As for network paper, I know I’m much stronger than the rest of my group members and I worked very hard to help them. There are 3 parts of assessment for this paper that contribute 60%. I’m pretty sure I scored high for the first 15% which was subnet test. The lab test was 20% which was a nightmare to our group for one whole day. Then the final part was the packet tracer test that worthed 25%. This test is very interesting and I always enjoy practicing with it. The best part is we can immediately see the result which total in 100%. The lecturer has given us sample of the previous test and I had been practicing with it a few times yet I only managed 96%. On that day for the test, when I saw the test paper that tells us what to configure in the packet tracer, I was a bit shocked to see how different this test with the one we practiced. Nevertheless, I really tried hard to configure one by one and at the end I was stuck at 95%. The test took longer than I expected and I had even promised to my darling that I would be back early after the test. Of course I didn’t manage to go off early and used up all the time to finish the test. The lecturer was willing to give everyone another 15 minutes extension but I didn’t take it and finally gave up and submitted the paper with my 95% score.
The next few days, I heard others talking about their score. I was pretty sure someone must have scored 100% and I even asked around to see whom because I really want to know where I did wrong. My search was fruitless as most of those I know got lesser. When I finally see our marks that carry 60%, I was shocked to see the full mark for that packet tracer test is 95%. Can you believe it? That means I got full 25% and I’m the only one (more surprise!). Hu hu! Imagine how happy I am. For the rest of the assessments, I can’t see the marks but the total for the 60%, I managed another A. Thank God for that! My other group members got A too and they are so happy. One of them even said that if we don’t go for the final we will still pass the paper. Haha! Of course, we will go for the final. We want our As and it’s nearly in our grasp. Haha!
This is of course not the end of the story. I have a lot more to work on to secure my final As. And I won’t forget to count my blessings and thank my darling for support. He even took leave to accompany me to study at home. He’s so much like my personal supervisor who always check on me and remind me to study, study and study (just imagine him with a cane). Hehe!
Okay, that’s all for now…it’s time to study again…
