Everyone who has ever gone to school, be it high school, college or graduate school knows that there are two words that can turn your stomach into a pretzel, make your mouth as dry as cotton, shoot your blood pressure through the roof and send your sweat glands into apoplexy. Those two words are the words – "final exam".

I will never forget the final- final I ever took. It was my oral examination in front of my three supervisory professors in my doctorial program. I've never felt such pressure in my life, because in your orals you either pass or fail and you have to pass unanimously. If you fail, three and a half years of your life go out the window. I can still remember the joy in my heart when I walked out of there knowing it was the last final exam I would ever take.

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