Feeling drowsy

After having lab exams, it is perfectly natural for anyone to feel drowsy. You had nightmares all throughout the week that you were not getting the output and that the external examiner was a guy from some other planet who spoke in a tongue you didn't know and about things you never knew existed. So after the lab exam, if you get the output, you are glad that you have escaped for the time being...until the next lab exam, that is.



But the sheer mental strain of going through it makes you listless. You take at least a week to recover provided you get the output. If you don't get it, or better, if you did not convince the examiner that you have not obtained the output, then you feel little better than dirt for a long time until a physician called time heals all your wounds.



Ah well! Whenever I see that dreaded lab of mine now, I am glad it's over. Two lab exams with tough questions are enough to make any hardcore atheist turn into a Catholic priest-cum-missionary. Whew! The very thought that I have endured four lab exams makes my hair stand up. No wonder I have lost so much of my hair!



It worsens when your external examiner is one who has thorough knowledge about the experiment and you haven't got a clue. He asks you questions, you guess the answer and say something, he smiles and follows up on that, you guess again and get a high seeing that you are surpassing your own expectations about yourself and are answering the questions well until he decides that he has had enough entertainment from this chump and tells thou," Thy answers were all wrong". Now, couldn't he have said that earlier?



But the biggest thing is getting the output. If you get it, you have hit the jackpot. Nothing to worry for six more months. I have a sincere feeling that getting the output in the lab is a random process. You either get the output or you do not, each with the probability of 0.5.

May God preserve me during my next lab exam!