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It's my 25th aniversary of my last Final...
Dec 14, 2022, 10:43 AM
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I can remember the weight of the world as I walked out of Lowry for the last time and back to my apartment to load my car, just finishing my last exam at Clemson. Excited, relieved and nervous of what was to come.
Feels like it was yesterday but also feels like it was 50 years ago at the same time.
Go Tigers, Beat the Vols!
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All-TigerNet [11104]
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Re: It's my 25th aniversary of my last Final...
Dec 14, 2022, 11:40 AM
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Just be glad you don't have to retake them every 10 years to maintain your degree.
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I took 24 hrs in the Spring of '88.
Dec 14, 2022, 11:49 AM
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Then followed that with two 9hr/6wk summer sessions. I woke up shaking over the stress of finals for 15 years.
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To this day, I still have a recurring dream/nightmare
Dec 14, 2022, 12:12 PM
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That I forgot about going to a particular class for an entire semester and I'm trying to find the classroom to take the final exam. I wake up in a cold sweat every time.
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All-In [25396]
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Used to have the same and upon awakening would breathe
Dec 14, 2022, 12:25 PM
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one heck of a sigh of relief.
Couldn't imagine why those particular dreams other than I used to be notorious cutting classes my last two years. lol
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I think everyone that ever attended college and struggled at
Dec 14, 2022, 1:14 PM
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all has had some form of that nightmare, I know I did. The caveat always was, even though you never attended a class, the final counted 60% of your grade, so if you El Perfectoed it, you could still pull a D.
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Yep, and I know we've had this discussion before...but maybe
Dec 14, 2022, 1:44 PM
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about every year or so, I have that dream/nightmare. I'm running all over Martin Hall trying to find this professor to turn in a big final project. I think a Comp Sci course, and I have to have it to graduate. Final exams have wound down, most folks are headed home, the classrooms and offices are dark and empty... can't find him anywhere. I'm freaking out, without that project I flunk the class...
As Freddie sings - left me in a cold cold sweat.
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CU Medallion [65702]
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Another less frequent version. Walking across the stage at
Dec 14, 2022, 5:40 PM
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Graduation, suddenly they hold up the ceremony and notify me that I cannot graduate, because there is a one hour course I forgot to take that is a requirement for graduation. That one will wake you up in a cold sweat, too.
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Re: To this day, I still have a recurring dream/nightmare
Dec 14, 2022, 2:07 PM
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May 6, 2023 will mark 25 years since I got my Clemson degree. Dang I am getting old. At least 6 times a year I have that same dream where I am walking into Dr. Kimbler's class for my final exam and realize I am not prepared AT ALL. I likely hone in on that class because I had that class on Wednesday afternoons and I often skipped it to go play basketball at Fike. Subconsciously, I guess I still can't figure out how I pulled an A with so little effort as far as class attendance goes.
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Same... except for me, it was that my average was already
Dec 14, 2022, 2:14 PM
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failing and that I probably wouldn't be able to drop the class which would result in me losing my assistantship, forcing me to figure out a future without a Master's Degree.
This phased out the football dream that it was an away game and I forgot my shoulder pads.
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All-In [25396]
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This next May will be my 54th....Didn't have much time
Dec 14, 2022, 12:29 PM
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to worry, because exactly one week after graduation, I was in the Airborne School at Ft. Benning enroute to a four-year active duty commitment.
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Re: It's my 25th aniversary of my last Final...
Dec 14, 2022, 3:38 PM
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All these years (50) i thought it was just me having those crazy nightmares.
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