astro_noms | Master has given Pauli a diploma! Pauli is free!

Well, not quite, because we don't get the diplomas til September (I don't know why, possibly they're waiting to print them all until the fall exams are done?), but:

I PASSED MY BA EXAM

So theoretically, I am all graduamacated and everything. Of course, a BA in Poland isn't really worth much, and a lot of people from the older generations don't consider you "done" with university until you have an MA but w/e, w/e, I am calling this one a win.

We had a bbq yesterday with the family next door, and my grandfather opened a bottle of champagne that he was theoretically saving for when I finished my MA, but then he got all paranoid about how he'd gotten a bottle from someone else some other time and it went bad before he opened it, and this one was already four years old, so screw it, we're drinking to your BA instead. I was a little worried that it might be bad luck to toast it before I had the results, but everyone was all "pfft, as if you didn't pass, shut up." Then I spent the night waking up every two hours to check whether they'd been posted (I don't know why, it's not like the IT guy would post them at 4am, but apparently my brain didn't get that memo), and then fending off four or five super short but intense nightmares of different scenarios in which the results were posted and it turned out that I didn't pass.

The results finally went up at around noon, and while I didn't do awesomely on the exam itself (I scored 76/100, which is a 3+, so I guess the equivalent of a C+?), my diploma mark (which is 75% average from the last three years, and 25% the average from the two parts of the BA exam) works out to a 4.5 (so a B+, I'd guess, or a 2-1 in the UK system, but IDK, I wish there was a uniform worldwide grading system, because this is ridiculous), so I'm actually pretty damn happy with that.

Now I'm going to take the next two days to pick up my paperwork from the uni, pack up the rest of my stuff, clean out my room and settle my bills/rent, and then on Thursday I'm going to have to get to work on the translation. I have the MA interview in a week, so I still have to prep for that, but I'm trying to think positive, because I really really really REALLY hate interviews and interview-like things (the prospect of having to do an MA defense absolutely terrifies me), and considering that I almost bombed the last interview I had (the Erasmus qualifying interview), I'm more than a little nervous. But THINKING POSITIVE, dammit. I can do this, I can do this, I CAN MOTHERFUCKING DO THIS. *resolve face*