Word: exam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eager to get some answer, I'm tempted--because of my strong sense of journalistic responsibility--to pay the cryobank a visit. But the rigors of exam period get the better of me, so early on Tuesday afternoon I give the sperm bank a call, looking for a concession that clients can match up samples with their college of origin. I leave a long message with the receptionist--no one with the information I'm looking for is available--but as of press time, my call still hasn't been returned...
...cloud. You start thinking about balancing on a cloud and what clouds are made of and whether one could support your weight, and you don't remember much from physics, but at least you'll be taking Science A next semester, that is, if you pass your Foreign Cultures exam tomorrow, but you need at least a B+ on this exam if you want a decent grade in the class...and then you turn the clock around again and notice that it's 5:30 a.m.. You close your eyes again, and the cycle repeats itself. You have forgotten...
...than you felt the day before! Not only that, but you feel more alert than ever; when you look around at the buildings outside, everything appears incredibly sharp and focused, and the voices of the people around you sound remarkably loud and distinct. Later in the day during your exam, perhaps you begin examining ordinary objects as if they were quite extraordinary, noticing with tremendous interest the edges of the seat in front of you or the chew-marks on your pencil. But by noon, people are laughing at you at lunch as you contemplate your fork, completely oblivious...
...foot as you're stepping with the other foot onto solid ground. You can't think about "nothing" at that moment, because "nothing" is exactly what you fear the most, that somehow you won't make it from Point A to Point B, that you'll sleep through your exam, that you won't get a job or get into graduate school, that you have no idea where you'll be in three years or two years or even six months from now, that you'll be lying awake in bed all night and never fall asleep...
Somewhere, but not at Harvard. University officials said that not even a dire storm will alter the final exam schedule...