The Results Are In

I wrote last week about my recent exam in English Romanticism, and conveyed the sense of dismay I felt as all my classmates finished their tests and departed while I wracked my brain for answers.  Well, the results are in, and I am pleased to say that I didn’t do as badly as I might have thought under the circumstances.  Granted, the test was quite difficult, and I confused a couple things, and forgot a poem by Wordsworth called “Resolution and Independence”.  But for all my anxiety I still got a low, low B.  I am just pleased that I wasn’t among the many, many Fs and Ds in the class.  Oh, and a girl sitting right by me during the test, who wrote so swiftly and left so quickly I thought surely she must have known the material better than I…she got a D.

All in all, I am neither proud nor ashamed of my grade.  I’ve got to write an essay for Thursday’s class, and that’s an opportunity to move up a bit.  If I could only think of a topic….