Finished my math exam! Wow, that went reasonably well. But it could have been a lot more traumatic if it had really wanted to.

The exam started at 1:30. At 1:15, I left the dorm with all the rest of my suite math study group. Of course, I then realized that they all had their exams in a different location, as they're in the 002 section and I'm in 004. So I took out my map and tried to find my way to the Nursing Education Building. That area is a total maze, I can tell you. I ended up walking around the entire hospital complex. Gah. At 1:29, I was panicing. Winded from running, I power-walked around the building, looking for a way in. I finally found one at 1:31, only to find that I didn't have the proper credentials for that entrance. It wouldn't accept my PennCard because I'm not in the Nursing school. A sign on the door instructed my kind to use one of two other entrances, neither of which I had any idea where they were. Panic went into major overdrive. I was a sniffling, teary mess by the time I found an entrance I could actually use.

I asked the receptionist if she knew where the Math 104 exam was, and she didn't know. I started tearing through my Math notebook, looking for the page where I had written all the information about the exam. Even after looking through twice, I couldn't find it. Panic, panic, panic. Right when I was ready to resign myself to running around the halls of the building in search of my exam, a horde of students and TAs pushed by, led by Mr. Crotty, my teacher. I grabbed all my stuff, wiped away any stray tears, and joined their pack, like a scraggly rodent drawn to a mathematical Pied Piper.

So everything was okay, I arrived before the test started, and I found a seat reasonably close to the front. I think I actually did rather well on the test, even though over an hour had gone by before I stopped shaking. So today's lesson is that if you've never been to the location where your exam is to be, set out at least 30 minutes early, instead of 15. Because knowing is half the battle.

And now, I'm going to watch more of the TTT:EE, because I can. Mwahaha.