Online Results

‘NO! You cannot do this to me! I’ve waited for weeks for this day to come.’

The voice of a teenage girl echoed in the empty house as she continued her not-so futile attempt to access a certain page.

‘Why won’t you do as I say? Where is the speed when I need it most?!’

Frustration was slowly taking over as the girl began to bang the coffee table with her fists. Having waited for weeks for the results to be announced online, she couldn’t help feeling nervous and curious if she was good enough to make the cut.

‘Have you checked the results?’

Her friends were asking online on a social site regarding the matter.

‘No! The stupid page won’t load for me!’

The girl was getting impatient as 10 minutes had already passed and the page was fully loaded yet. It was stuck at the page’s header and it was getting on her nerves.

‘There’s no way that the page can crash within 15 minutes of the release of the results?’

Waiting for page to load online was nothing new to the girl for she already experienced it many times before, and so was waiting for online releases. Just a few weeks before, she was having an imaginary online war with the rest of her course mates to register for classes for the next semester.

She was so stressed out by registration that she couldn’t sleep at all that night and ended up waking up at 4am because she was too nervous to continue sleeping. As if she was sleeping in the first place, she went to bed at 11.30, tossed around in bed and looked at the clock after what-she-thought-to-be a very long time, it was only 12am. Continued tossing around in bed, checked the clock, 12.30am. Repeat process for 2am, 2.30am, 3.00am and lastly 4am. She couldn’t take it anymore and got up and took out her laptop to go online early in the morning.

Anyway back to the story, the page finally loaded after who-knows how long. As expected, she didn’t make the cut. She wasn’t disappointed at all, to be honest. She wasn’t expecting to make the cut. If she did, it would’ve been a huge miracle, like how she managed to get a B for her economics exam in college. She sucked at Economics big time.

She would like to congratulate all her friends who made the cut and wishes all, including those who didn’t and did not apply, all the best in your studies, work hard if not harder than they did in secondary school and always remember to smile.

After all, smiling is healthy =)