Finals and Lockdown
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Title
Finals and Lockdown
Experience
Goodbye to red carnations, post exam celebrations
Infatuations with being coated in shaving foam
And fascination with jumping into the river
Soaking my totally trashed gown
Almost losing my plastic crown
And trying not drown, with the weight of the flower garland
Goodbye to unstable punting, garden party bunting, and hunting, hunting down those lecture notes
If you don’t find them they’ll appear on the exam, no doubt
But this term really was about missing out
The end is close, but it doesn’t seem right
You might think open book would bring delight
But it’s the unknown that is fear
And the unknown did appear
With paper formats being changed a few weeks before the exam
It is out of hand, it’s just not what I’d planned for the last 3 years
How can we revise as normal when normal is not what we’re getting?
Nothing is normal right now...
As I click the x in the corner of the screen, and realise that the end to my Oxford dream,
Which actually consists of sitting in my garden eating ice cream,
Waiting
Waiting
For the email to come
With results, saying my degree is officially done
A fitting way to mark the end
As like my exams,
It’ll all be on a screen
At home
Isolating
Infatuations with being coated in shaving foam
And fascination with jumping into the river
Soaking my totally trashed gown
Almost losing my plastic crown
And trying not drown, with the weight of the flower garland
Goodbye to unstable punting, garden party bunting, and hunting, hunting down those lecture notes
If you don’t find them they’ll appear on the exam, no doubt
But this term really was about missing out
The end is close, but it doesn’t seem right
You might think open book would bring delight
But it’s the unknown that is fear
And the unknown did appear
With paper formats being changed a few weeks before the exam
It is out of hand, it’s just not what I’d planned for the last 3 years
How can we revise as normal when normal is not what we’re getting?
Nothing is normal right now...
As I click the x in the corner of the screen, and realise that the end to my Oxford dream,
Which actually consists of sitting in my garden eating ice cream,
Waiting
Waiting
For the email to come
With results, saying my degree is officially done
A fitting way to mark the end
As like my exams,
It’ll all be on a screen
At home
Isolating
Date
2020-06 See all items with this value
Where
Lincolnshire
Creator
Rebecca Wright
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This item was submitted on July 2, 2020