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out_thereThis is for the Under 30 Minutes - Early Morning challenge at contrelamontre. It would have been longer, but work suddenly became busy. Hence, here's my 14 minutes worth of contribution:
Exams were designed to be hell. Pete had said it, and Clark agreed with it. They were designed to clear out the ranks of students who didn’t have the fortitude, or caffeine supply, to stay up most of the night cramming.
And when he said most of the night, it wasn’t a case of dragging themselves to bed at 2am and then grumbling as they got ready in the morning. It was staying awake from 6am that morning until 11pm that night, crashing until 2am, and then getting up for that last minute study and a quick revision of the six chapters they somehow hadn’t found time to read.
It was unreal. It was still dark outside, and hopefully would remain dark long enough for them to skim at least one chapter each and summarise it for the other. There was the strange feeling of being exhausted and being too wired to even consider sleeping. Muffled yawns were hidden behind cups half-filled with luke-warm coffee and it was only the sound of pens scribbling down hasty notes that broke the pre-dawn silence.
Exams were hell.
Exams were designed to be hell. Pete had said it, and Clark agreed with it. They were designed to clear out the ranks of students who didn’t have the fortitude, or caffeine supply, to stay up most of the night cramming.
And when he said most of the night, it wasn’t a case of dragging themselves to bed at 2am and then grumbling as they got ready in the morning. It was staying awake from 6am that morning until 11pm that night, crashing until 2am, and then getting up for that last minute study and a quick revision of the six chapters they somehow hadn’t found time to read.
It was unreal. It was still dark outside, and hopefully would remain dark long enough for them to skim at least one chapter each and summarise it for the other. There was the strange feeling of being exhausted and being too wired to even consider sleeping. Muffled yawns were hidden behind cups half-filled with luke-warm coffee and it was only the sound of pens scribbling down hasty notes that broke the pre-dawn silence.
Exams were hell.
