Friday 11th July – Results

Undergraduate results are released on 11th July at Bath University. This is six weeks after the last exam is finished, and by the time that I found out my results, everyone else at Piping Rock had long since found out their fates. Results officially go up on the interweb at midnight BST (7pm over here), but normally actually appear an hour or so earlier than that. So I spent most of the time before my 6pm shift refreshing the same page on my computer screen in the hope that they’d been posted early again. However this wasn’t the case and I had to work the entire evening shift wondering if I was going to have to re-sit any exams.



The main problem with failing a module wouldn’t be the inconvenience of having to re-learn any material, it would be the inconvenience of coming home a month early to take the actual exam. I’m currently meant to be out here until September 21st, and re-sits take place around the time of the August Bank Holiday weekend.
We finished work at about 11pm, and drove back home via a grocery store, so that I’d have beer to celebrate/commiserate with. Thankfully, after reading through all the msn messages that were waiting for me (all saying “results are up if you didn’t already know”), I found out that I’d passed everything. Sadly this doesn’t make for as interesting a blog entry as if I’d failed something, because it means that I don’t have to sort out any flights home or anything. But on the upside, I passed everything and feel a whole lot better about it. My group even got just short of 60% on our maths project, which was a shock considering the grilling one of the lecturers gave us during the presentations.

On a non-exam related note, I’m still just as white as when I left the UK (a fact which Ben will be all too happy about), so as I wasn’t meant to be working the lunchtime shift today I decided to take the train to the nearby village of Oyster Bay so that I could spend a couple of hours basking in the sun. The beach at Oyster Bay isn’t even nearly as nice as the one at Long Beach that we visited last week; but it was good enough for my purposes and a whole lot better than a lot of Britain’s beaches. Not to mention the fact that it was about 30 degrees today. I sunbathed for a bit, and walked round the marina that’s at one end of the cove. I was going to go for a swim in the water too, but was a bit afraid of getting my stuff nicked whilst I was in there.
I’m not even sure if I caught any sun at all to be honest, but it was nice just to lay down in the sun for a few hours.