So... exams have been over for a few days and unfortunately in the confusion I managed to leave my digital camera in my room at school while my mum managed to get me to move back to Camden so she could use my presence in the house to ward off unwated house guests. What with Sasha's 50s themed birthday party, a much awaited lunch-and-movie date with Melissa and series of post-exam bar hops, I was forced to buy one of these:

which means that my photographic evidence of all these events is in the process of being
developed. How quaint.
Anyway, by end of the exam period, I think that a lot of us were about ready to admit defeat. There was a week between my last exam and the one before it, so by then I found myself really not caring whether I got a decent grade. You need 40% to pass the year, so a lot of people were like, 'Well, I wrote
something in that exam so I obviously passed, and now it's over, I don't give a monkey's.' Anthropology 100 was one of the very late exams so almost nobody had another one after that. This meant that once the exam had finished there was an almost unbroken stream of people walking from the exam hall into the union bar. :D
What's interesting though is that that night after the last exam was the night where I met met a lot of classmates who I'd previously never spoken to before. I think this year came as a big shock to most people, especially the level of work involved and the kind of expectations put on us by tutors and stuff like that. A lot of my friends wished that they had made a bit more of an effort to make friends and get involed in university stuff. And I think the sense of lost opportunity was common among others as well. As the night went on, people who my have never spoken to each other before invited each other out for summer parties and made promises to meet up over the summer. I must have made a note of more phone numbers that night than I had for the entire year.
( since then... )
And tomorrow I am off to stay in the French countryside with a group of girls where I was promised a lot of eating, drinking, gossiping and photo opportunities. Yay!