#472 Finishing your last exam

Neil Pasricha

After sitting on a wobbly wood desk coloring in multiple choice bubbles for hours, you finally tip-toe to the front and hand in your last exam. Now you can say goodbye to biology, say goodbye to  photosynthesis, say goodbye to hypotenuses, and say goodbye to the hot stench of chalk dust and B.O. sitting heavy in the hot room.

Now you can say goodbye to early mornings, say goodbye to pop quizzes, and say goodbye to weekend homework.

Now you can say hello to summer.

It’s finally here.

AWESOME!

I’d love to meet you in Washington, DC next week.

— Email message —

“Today I finally made my way to a bookstore to pick up The Book of Awesome. It took a while for my friend and I to find it … and he doesn’t know secretly I bought it for him! He’s a year older than me, and is going to college in the fall, but I have to stay home for my own senior year. So as a present, I’m giving him your book in hopes that on those hard freshmen college days he has a little something to cheer him up and make his day AWESOME!” – Katie

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49 thoughts to “#472 Finishing your last exam”

  2. aw man. i knew this feeling when i graduated from college! but my major had to be accounting and i have 4 of the biggest exams waiting for me after college. UGH cannot wait!

    1. Ohhh sucky! I have a friend who graduated with her Master’s last spring and had to take the CPA exam(s) over the course of last summer. We basically didn’t see her. All summer.

      GOOD LUCK! :D

      1. ugh thanks. i’m planning to take all 4 before the end of the year. i’m already receiving “complaints” from friends that they miss me. it’s only been 2 weeks! LOL

  3. Such sweet relief — particularly that extra-special, mega-rare, highly-anticipated LAST-last exam.

    :)

  5. The most awesome feeling out. :D
    In my first year at uni I just finished my mid-year exams and the absolute sigh of relief afterwards was the best feeling in a long time! Got more coming up in October though :'(

  6. Oh my God! I’ve got my last A2 exam today, so this was a little spooky lol.

    Wish me luck!

  9. I didn’t know when I took my last exam that it was going to actually be my last. I didn’t get to finish college because my scholarship wouldn’t let me take any kind of leave to have my child and I had no other way to pay. I had all intentions on having more exams……I don’t even remember my last one. I do remember getting out of my big English exam because I wrote a really awesome essay… that was awesome!

  11. Yes, finishing that last exam is the best!! And I’m totally bummed that I can’t make it to your visit to dc! But I hope you enjoy!!

  12. Okay, let me just add: as a parent to teens, we too breathe a major sigh of relief when your last exam is written. All that stress just evaporates…. And all those errant study sheets finally disappear.

    1. Thanks for paying for everything.
      Thanks for the fees and living expenses,
      The bread and the juice (not the wine)
      Thanks for the comfort you provided
      On behalf of all students who have graduated

  13. Oddly enough, my last exam this semester was in Biology. And I did have a question or two on photosynthisis.
    No chalk dust or B.O. and nothing about hypotenuses.

  15. I finished about 2 hours ago for good AND when i finally loaded this up its the first post i see.. MY LIFE IS AWESOME :D

  18. In the immortal words of Alice Cooper:

    No more pencils
    No more books
    No more teacher’s dirty looks

    Out for summer
    Out till fall
    We might not go back at all

    School’s out forever
    School’s out for summer
    School’s out with fever
    School’s out completely

    AWESOME!

    [ed note: I added that last part]

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  25. The timing of this post can’t be better! Today, I had my last exam of my last day of school from my senior year.

    It’s such an emotional moment, knowing that it’s maybe the last time you’ll see many of these people, and it’s difficult but you also feel happy because you made it!!

    Thank you, Neil, I don’t know how you do it, but you always get it right.

  26. what about getting your results and passing all the exams you’ve been waiting nervousley for over a month?
    it was my day :) passed all the exams and finished with everything ^^

  27. Yes!! I am loving my summer right now. I’ve still got exams ahead of me, but thank goodness I’ve got a summer in between. Nothing’s better than finishing that exam… well, except for knowing you aced it!

    Brittany

  28. It feels even better when you notice that the students on the picture wear your high school uniform.

  29. Oh…this is truly the best feeling after endless anxious days of dowloading innumerable pages into your head…feels so light…Ahh!

  31. One of my happiest days. It wasnt just saying hello to summer but to the rest of my life!! I remember it vividly, i was fully prepared for the exam. It was a beautiful sunny day and when i left the exam room everything seemed brighter. I was super happy. I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Hello world, goodbye UWI. Only one word to describe it. Yup u guessed it…..AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

  32. I usually reached the breaking point prior to finals and started singing the remix of Harold Melvin/Simply Red.

    “IF YOU DON’T KNOW IT BY NOW….. YOU WILL NEVER, NEVER, NEVER KNOW IT. OOOOOOOOOHHHHH OOO OOO OOO OOO.

  33. “Finishing your last exam” that’s the best feeling I can get at school.
    Then you know that the difficult period is finally over. You know there will follow now a short period with al lot of pleasure and fun. City visits, shopping with friends, go to the cinema, eating McDonald or Quick and drinking beer. That’s the moment you don’t need to think of the results of your exams, just… relaxing.

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