T-minus 16 hours

Freedom is so close the euphoria is beginning to set in. It's making it exponentially more difficult to study, which isn't all that great given the first 2 exams out of 3 this session has been the stuff of nightmares.

Yes, I'm procrastinating.. actually I just woke up from a nap. One I very comfortably took on top of my binder. Sure, I was panicked for a second when I woke up with pencil on my face, but it faded as I the reality of the situation set back in.

I don't really care anymore. I'm going to pass. The teacher's have essentially all but openly admitted that they take it harder on our year's class than any before and probably any after. It swings back to 2 things really, a school obsessed with it's image and the influence of the infamous double cohort year on the quality of recruitment.

Why should it have to be made harder for my class because there are more smart people? Should we get harder tests than all the other years just so that our average hovers around 65%? Does a high average say the school is doing something wrong, or does it just say that this class whips ass compared to the others.

It hardly seems fair, but then again, things rarely are when it's about image.... if that's actually what it's about. Strange how when it's not a Respected institution ganging up on you because you're smart it generally called bullying, discrimination, or something else criminal sounding. Either way, the motivation is stolen when you hear that its going to be harder because you're better.

One more exam to go tomorrow and that's it. After noon it's all over and these 4 months will fall into line on a shelf somewhere waiting to be included in my memoirs. They'll be filed along side the other array of 'life's worst' notes and I'll draw on them when I think something is shitty in the future. Hard to think what could compare.

And of course, there's Plan B. If this whole bit doesn't work out, there's always the marines... or perhaps the rangers. That could be fun, if not honorable.