Yesterday I had my final exam on structural organic chemistry class, probably my last class in grad school. It would be great if my last class had been a lot exciting, with a twist of drama in the end or a lot of jokes.... But actually, yesterday's class was nothing of that sort, I would never had imagined that I would be dozing off in the last class. In my two years of master's course, I had a lot of different classes: molecular nanotechnology, physical organic chemistry, organic chemistry reactions, , advanced physical chemistry, advanced chemistry for material science, frontier nanoscale materials, etc... And for almost each class, sure, I fell asleep sometimes. But the yesterday's class was the worst and most embarrassing one. Before having the final exam my professor decided to add a little bit of lecture. While he was having the lecture I almost really fell into deep sleep. or was I sleeping? The last thing I know is that I heard the words singlet... And triplet... And I couldn't remember anything anymore. and my eyelids were heavy as hell. I couldn't get to open them for 3 seconds... Unfortunately, I was sitting at the front and center of the classroom. I was the only student sitting in that row, no other students were sitting in front of me. Sure, my professor probably saw my poor face almost sleeping... And that's embarrassing because he is my boss, my professor in the lab where I work in. I think at that point when he saw my face, he. Stopped the lecture and started to give out exam questionnaire. So well, in a way I was probably the reason why he stopped the lecture. Just embarrassing.
I forgot to mention than everyone was sleeping in the class and one student almost fell off his chair while sleeping in this class. I'm not bored just sleepy. And other students were worse than me because for the whole Smeester they just slept. but it is still embarrassing for me because this is my big boss talking. My. Laboratory. Boss.
The final exam had 3 questions, none of which I studied or read. I completely studied a different topic from what came out in the exam. Talk about being lucky. So I guessed my way through all three. I made a mistake on the first one. The second one my answer was right but explanation was a bit off. Third one was hit bull's eye. Maybe I didn't do so well in my prof's class final exam. Well he said maybe I can get an S for my final score, which is the highest score... So oh well... That's it for my last class in grad school... Probably.
After class my friends and I were laughing so hard because everyone in the class were asleep in all of the sessions of this lecture class. It is just funny to attend a class where all the students are sleeping and the professor is still talking. HAHA.
But I'm sorry prof. My energy was not enough to keep me awake. Caffeine didn't work either. Before class I had the feeling I might start to doZe off so I drank black coffee pure, but to no effect. I hope he didn't think badly of me, or I hope I didn't dissapoint him r made him angry or any of those negative feelings. I still love you, my professor!
I realized that although i didn't like exam and classes so much, well, I really liked them. It came to me that this is the last class, but I would miss sleeping in class and being under pressure to study for an exam or thinking of answers and just learning something. Yea , the next time it would be me who would be seeing students sleeping in my own class and trying to stay awake. Hahahah. I can't experience it anymore. I was actually considering enrolling in another class after i finish my post doc just to feel that again. It occurred to me that, when I finish school finally, I would miss all the things which happened, even the things which I hated. ;-) I love school.
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