A Hundred Days Of This - Day 53

I know I missed a day. 

Because I passed out. I had a crazy, crazy day yesterday, and boy, it is the kind of story that has to go on this blog.

I had my Corporate Finance exam yesterday, and thanks to the holiday mode, I did not prepare as well as I would have otherwise done. All along the holidays, I kept telling my husband that I did not want to write the exam at all, (because for me, not attempting seems like a way better option than failing) wishing that there would be a really bad snowstorm across Sweden and everything comes to a halt because it did get pretty bad in here. Borderline psychotic. And the other day, the husband got an email from his university saying that all the exams scheduled for that day would be held without interruption. When I was in school, they would declare a holiday if it rained heavily. 

Days before the exam I hit the nitro mode and studied all day, all night. Had to give up on my precious sleep too. Had to because my visa processing depended on my passing this exam. Told myself that I am a smart woman and can get through this without breaking a sweat. Half nervous, half sleep-deprived and a bit confident that failure is not an option, I entered the exam hall and was ready to face it all. I log in to the exam portal et voila! The portal is unable to give us access to MS Excel, which is where we do most of our calculations for cash flows and stock valuations. Ten minutes into the exam, I picked up my pencil and started doing some calculations manually because I did not want to waste any time, only to realise that I can solve only 5.5/10 questions without Excel. The management said we could commence the exam after an hour, and so we waited, but to no avail. From what I know and have heard, for the first time ever, the exam was cancelled. 

Did I manifest this too? I do not know and I was genuinely scared, mad, happy and sad that the exam was cancelled. No one could believe it that an exam got cancelled in Sweden! When I told this to my mother, she said - "manam Sweden ni kuda chedagoduthunnaam annamaata". I came home, took a break, worked on my assignments and lied down for a bit because I needed to give my back a break. Cannot remember when I fell asleep but it was 7:20 am today when I opened my eyes. Phew! What even was that?

And that's Day 53 for you!