Phew!

As predicted by many, but nevertheless absolutely unexpected for me, I sorta kinda did well in my first internals. Here goes...
Environmental Education - Writing about this gives me a kick even though it doesn't get counted in the total. All I had to do was pass and I did. And without studying at that! I got a (sad) 42 on 50 but was highly thrilled since I'd studied absolutely nothing!
Math - Thought I'd messed up the question I corrected in the last minute but my teacher took away only one mark for that (stupid arithmetic error... -32-4=-28 if I'm not mistaken) so I got a 49 on 50. However, since the marks appear on 25, I get a 25/25 for that one! God bless the dude (or dudette) who thought of rounding off!
Chem - This was one I wasn't too worried about. (Weird, huh? Chem is normally my bugbear!) This, as expected, was my best paper, with me getting 'out of out' (a new bit of Bengaluru lingo I've learned after joining college) so another 25, only this time I deserved it!
Comp - This again I wasn't too worried about but our teacher was a little strict so I lost out three marks which translates to a 24 on 25, but I was a little bugged because I lost out on a flowchart. I think this feeling will be familiar to certain 12 Sci-ians who irritated computer teacher[(s)???] to give them extra marks since there was absolutely nothing wrong with the logic. I however, refused to beg.
Tronics - This one was the most scary of the lot. Partly because even though our teacher is brilliant (or perhaps because he is brilliant), he expects high funda answers from us. Partly because it was an easy paper and I messed it up. And partly because Tronics is supposed to be my specialisation but I'd done the worst in that. To make matters worse, when I gave in an assignment to our teacher, he pointedly asked 'What happened to you in the paper?'. I spent one whole iday n tension. The next morning in class, he kept staring at my book and asking me questions. When he discussed the paper, I realised I'd pretty much done everything he didn't want us to do. I thought I was doomed for sure. After another really nervous day, I mustered up the courage to go look at my paper. Just when I thought I could make it, I heard these classmates of mine inside his office. One guy asked him why he'd marked a question wrong. Out teacher (who's a MAJOR genius) asked him what his mother tongue was. When the guy replied Tamil, out teacher blasted him in Tamil. I have no idea what he said but that was enough to make me almost have a nervous breakdown. Turns out I got a very respectable 23 on 25. But got yelled at anyway for using whitener. (Apparently VTU strictly bans use of whitener in the exams...) My mum was not very happy with me for putting myself through tension unnecessarily. Like I was telling everyone, she's probably the only mother who yells at her kid for doing better than expected!
So I get a 97% which is WAY beyond what I expected. So all those who left all those comments on my previous blog entry - go ahead. Jeer.