I’ve been feeling depressed lately. It’s mostly because I’ve been failing most of my tryouts. I did study as hard as I could (minus falling asleep), but I still couldn’t solve complicated questions which I have never seen before. My brain isn’t made for quick logical thinking. And the formulas, gods, the formulas are too overwhelming! How could they expect me to memorise three years worth of formulas in one day?
Twelve graders had a day off this Wednesday to prepare for more tryouts, which started exactly the day after it. On Tuesday, I spent the whole day finishing up my essays up to 2 AM with two of my friends. I actually feel bad for making them stay awake to help me. (Insert guilty feeling here.) I woke up a bit earlier on Wednesday to print my applications out and to recheck it. I was pretty sure I hadn’t missed anything when I also asked my mom to review it.
Oh well, I was wrong.
I hadn’t signed the last page of the form, so it was returned to me. I also had to actually attach a photocopy of my IELTS results. In addition to that, the university staff asked me to submit the original version (not translated) of the legalised report card from the first to the fifth semester. I was really confused as the statements in the website and form only required me to submit 2~2.5 years of my report, so I thought the fifth semester wasn’t needed. They also stated that I wouldn’t need to submit a copy of my exam result as long as I entered my IELTS form number.
Wednesday was the 27th. The deadline was on the 29th. The staff gave me two days to complete the missing files. And let me tell you how stressed and irritated my parents was when they had to sort all the remaining applications out. (It’s impossible for me to finish the job since I have tryouts.) I wouldn’t say that my school was reliable since they work really slow and all the teachers were occupied with tryouts. Moreover, my fifth semester report was a temporary one. The school’s system had an error so they couldn’t print the official ones. Thus, the headmaster couldn’t legalise anything. (Insert rage here.)
My mom urged the headmaster to hurry, so in the end I got my fifth semester report card just in time for submitting (29th, it’s the damned deadline.) So yeah, you should never submit anything nearing the deadline cause cases like mine happens really often.
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