exams and all that

well, This is my last exam today for this semester and I am just happy to have survived the whole experience.
Talk about pressure,I have never worried ,fretted and dreaded anything more than I did these exams.
In comparison to last years cert exams ,which in hindsight I can see we were spoon fed,it was really difficult.
Coming from the relatively intimate environment that was VTOS last year into the complete;y impersonal and huge examination rooms in DKIT was a truly terrifying experience.
What really struck home for me was the fact that as a third level student somewhere along the line I basically gave up my identity and became a number!
I am a certain number for college references and a different number for exam seating arrangements I obtained yet another number with the granting of my invalid car sticker the list is endless.
On exam days the strain was obvious on every ones faces but I still came up against that old age barrier thing when I tried to share that it was no different for me with my classmates.
I suppose it was a bit like mammy telling them it was gonna be OK .
All in all I think I did relatively ok January will tell the tale I really did study for theses exams but that old dragon came back to haunt me after nearly 30 yrs I was still physically sick on the morning of the exam,I still had that mad moment of having a total blank and I'm still living in dread of the results!
Oh well now its back to the real stuff and sorting out "Daddy Christmas" for all my gang here and abroad.