Apparently I Passed Third Year Med

University of Otago needed to out-do last year. For what they had in 2008 in terms of releasing end of year results, they felt the need to ditch it like a rapist with his used condom.

At least in 2008, they had the decency to tell us when our  results came out. This year you needed to have ‘caught up with the news’. What fucking news? Was it announced in the NZ Herald that the third year results were out? They’re too busy telling people of the serial rapist who after raping multiple women since he was 16, was put into jail, raped his cellmate – then was given parole after seven years. Now he’s raping  again (GASP!) and the police are looking for him.

Not since my health science days, have I looked at PIMS (where our results are released) everyday after the end of year exams. Exam results matter so much less, where 50% and specials (in case you fail) try their best to get you to the year-after- which unless you gym the day before til 2 a.m. the day before the exam, read a magazine for 2 hours and a half in a three hour exam – is usually enough.

Our ‘detailed’ results – as in something more than the single word “Pass” or “Fail” will hopefully improve from 2008. When it came out a month before the next end of year exams – in September. Does it really have to take 10 months to mark less than 300 papers? My neighbour’s left nut could’ve marked it in half the time – and it hasn’t even fully descended yet.