Happy news

First semester results were officially released today...and I am happy to report that I am exceedingly pleased with the marks that I got :-) It's not like I aced all of my classes or anything like that, but it's just that initially I was expecting abysmally low grades. As I mentioned in one of my earlier entries, at one stage I just totally lost my academic mojo, and everything went downhill from there. I even got a depressingly low mark on one of my major papers (which was 50% of my grade!) and so I really prepared myself for the worst.

I remember I even discussed this with my mom months ago. I told her that I am already way past the grade consciousness phase (yes, I had no life back in college...up to now even...but see, as a wide-eyed college dork, my life principally revolved around grades and I had generally considered one's scholastic performance as a yardstick to gauge intelligence and future success...in hindsight, I realize that I was indeed an unbelievably stupid and anal kid), and that I've been studying all my life and I am pretty much burned out now and all that jazz. The basic gist of the conversation was that I was mainly preparing her for the eventuality that I will miserably botch up my grades and thus I conditioned her not to expect brilliant results from me anymore.

But yeah, I guess this is sufficient cause for celebration :-) However, due to my self-imposed moratorium on deep-fried food (my flatmate and I recently purchased a deep fryer, and believe me we have been putting it to good (?) use), I'll probably just have a drink or two later. And maybe watch Harry Potter.