My results are out!!

I just got another miracle. I passed all my exams! Phew… and the one that I had the greatest fear – I had a 4.5 out of 6.0. This course has really been somewhat of a roller coaster. Up and down and up and down. I was really very worried after coming out of the exams for the "numerical methods" paper. It was TOUGH.

I went to review my scripts yesterday - Funny thing was, I got 91 out of 100 for one of the papers. And I only got a 5.0 out of 6.0. (Perhaps my presentation, which accounted for 50% of the marks was bad - it couldn't be, because I remember it was a very good presentation, and the professor said it was good). My groupmate, who also did the presentation got only 4.0 out of 6.0. I highly suspect that the professor made a mistake with our presentation grade - i.e. he probably mistook our group for another group, which did the same topic, but who had, in my view an inferior presentation. But anyways, I'll see if I have the "energy" to pursue the matter. My overall results are much much better than last semester, which I scraped through with the skin of my teeth! (Talk about grace. Har!)I had mostly 5.0 out of 6.0… i.e. out of 8 subjects, all were 5.0 out of 6.0, with one 4.5 and one 4.0. The surprising thing is that for the 4.0, it was one of the "easier" subjects for which I had 95% for the assignments... haha... so I didn't study much for the finals - only got 29 marks out of 100... haha... but overall, I passed.

I really give thanks to God for this. I remember telling Him before the exams - let my results be a testimony for You. I was still "recovering" from the lack of academic studies... come on... at my age - doing such a technical course with all the squiggly math formulae is NO SMALL JOKE. And I told Him after the numerical methods paper - "it's not fair... I studied VERY VERY HARD for the exams... but I 'blacked out' during the final paper. I KNEW how to do the questions but I simply blacked out. And so very much want to do You proud" (you know how these blackouts tend to happen for the most difficult of papers for which you have prepared so hard for?). Anyways, I just left the matter to God to "manage" and prayed that they would be more lenient with the marking. I was even prepared to retake the exam. But two days before the results were out, I heard God whisper to me “prepare to celebrate” – so I reckoned that it would be for my studies – and it’s true. Well…. God is really Good to me. What to say? But then, I now feel that the "celebration" might also be for something more.

Will update. Arh... yes... I'll also add in snippets of my journey to Austria. Apart from the diamond and gold dust, God did other amazing stuff with and to me. Haha.

God bless you.

Barns