Final exams: Because sleeping is for the weak

This picture's been passed around a lot on facebook. But from what I saw over the last week, I've realised that this is a gross misconception. The actual last five minutes (more like the last 30 minutes in my case) were spent thusly:

I even tried asking one of the invigilators what was causing my fellow classmates to make such obvious physical effort in filling out the answers while I was counting the number of fans on the ceiling. Perhaps there was some kind of secret puzzle that had to be cracked in order to reveal another essay or something. On the first day I even tried putting all the first letters of each line together, and ended up getting "Edtda Wddaldcvpcg Svatanmaitiwtttb". How intriguing. It actually didnt sound too different from some of the actual questions they had asked, like "What is GOBIFFF?"

I finally decided that the most effective way to spend all my free time would be to take a quick nap. You would understand my astonishment then, when everyone came out of the exam hall and told me that there was no time to finish writing everything that they wanted to.

The way I see it, there are two possible explanations. Either I am selectively blind to some kind of invisible ink that they used to print the back of the question paper, or I'm just plain dumb. And I have dont think they used any invisible ink.

Either way, it was all over yesterday, and then we went to watch some random movie called Marina. After a week of not sleeping, you dont usually care much for such things as quality when you select a movie. But unfortunately, this particular movie also had some strong advice for the audience, delivered in typical tamil-movie style - very indiscreetly; advice that no fresh-out-of-the-exam-hall college student wants to hear. Advice on the importance of education and studying hard.

Oh the irony.