Two months of hard work, a few days of tension and the pressure surmounted and reached its peak today. The last person exited the viva panel, and even though the results weren't yet out, the tension dissipated.
Everybody standing around in circles, discussing those moments in their respective vivas and then gradually moving on to other interesting topics.
Two months of work and your fate decided in 20 minutes????
It didn't seem fair. After all we slogged during this time and put in our best efforts and our reports were given only to our mentors for cross checking. We argued within ourselves, "Aren't they supposed to read our reports if they wanted to question us on the project?".
It seems not. All they wanted was us to do a presentation. It was a easy session for a few and a grueling session for a few others.
But what can we do...when they dismiss the project without a second glance, with just a nod, with arguments on its mistakes and so on....and all without our report being read.
A few relieved faces and a few tense ones...It was difficult to congratulate friends on their doing the viva well and in the same breath consoling those who didn't.
As those discussions abated, people were just relieved - whether or not the viva went well, it was done and over with and nothing further could be done for now.
Now as we await the results, all most of us can think of are the classes and the fun that we are to have this trimester!!!
And so we begin to plan......
Everybody standing around in circles, discussing those moments in their respective vivas and then gradually moving on to other interesting topics.
Two months of work and your fate decided in 20 minutes????
It didn't seem fair. After all we slogged during this time and put in our best efforts and our reports were given only to our mentors for cross checking. We argued within ourselves, "Aren't they supposed to read our reports if they wanted to question us on the project?".
It seems not. All they wanted was us to do a presentation. It was a easy session for a few and a grueling session for a few others.
But what can we do...when they dismiss the project without a second glance, with just a nod, with arguments on its mistakes and so on....and all without our report being read.
A few relieved faces and a few tense ones...It was difficult to congratulate friends on their doing the viva well and in the same breath consoling those who didn't.
As those discussions abated, people were just relieved - whether or not the viva went well, it was done and over with and nothing further could be done for now.
Now as we await the results, all most of us can think of are the classes and the fun that we are to have this trimester!!!
And so we begin to plan......
