Journal

A-OK?

Results came out today, and as always, armed with the capacity to surprise. Overall, not too bad, not too good. Certainly I did worse for a couple of subjects than I thought I would, but the real surprise came in a B-. I thought I would have done significantly better for that.

I did okay for all the subjects I thought I had a real shot at. I had an A+, which was unusual, and it came in a subject that I didn’t expect to get an A+ for. Sociology, that is. I’ve never ever done Sociology before, and I wasn’t starting from the basics, and through the thing I was always aware that I found it slanting towards the challenging side, so it was really unexpected.

I didn’t screw up Literature, which was a kind of a perverse relief, I guess. I mean, it basically has no bearing on my work, but you can’t help relating the two somehow.

In all, I have to say I’m a bit disappointed, but just a little bit. It’s because I had a tiny good feeling coming from two of the subjects, but they evaporated almost instantaneously when the results showed up. Still, at least I didn’t goof too awfully. It just wasn’t as good as I had hoped for it to be, even if realistically my expectations weren’t too high.

On a side note, it wasn’t all that vexing checking the results this year, so I must congratulate the NUS IT department for apparently fixing things up properly.

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