It's been more than a month now since I started preparing for my exam. When was that? 4 April to be exact. The day I came back from London. The preparation has stretched so long that I am reaching my point of saturation. It doesn't help to see more and more of my friends who started the exam at the same time or some who started later, completing the whole process and are moving on with their life. Most of the postgraduates I know are in the final stage of the masters i.e. writing a dissertation. They have their titles in place, met their supervisors and did the presentation. While I am only beginning the process when the exam is over (it's still not over by the way).
At the same time, my course requires us to attend one more module which is "Research Technique in Finance". Nothing can be even more depressing than getting the email from the professor in the middle of the exam period, providing us with reading lists for the first two lectures, together with his lecture slides and the course outline which states that we have to complete two projects by 30 June, with around 3,000 words each! I finally understand why my dissertation length is shorter than most people. I did not get a better deal at all in this case.
Despite my unhappiness with the intensity of the course (I believe they are attempting to cramp too much in a one year program), I am glad that these 8 months had been a very fruitful time. Although I struggled day by day, I knew that not a moment was left idle for me to engage in empty activities. Time had become something really precious that every second counts. I have never had so much fun in learning, discovering new things every day or suddenly understanding a diagram my professor had drawn 45 minutes before the exam.
Lesson of the day: If you stare at something long enough or you keep reading the same material over and over again, you are bound to learn something new.
That's exactly what I am going to do for my final paper on Thursday.
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