Midterms

Thursday was a class-activity day...which meant that they would be plunking their posteriors in the grass and sketching in their sketch book - always fun. Mornings in the student house was early with the lights going on at about 5 AM. It happens when you wear yourself out mentally, you crash early and Haruo was more than happy to have his head hit the pillow...especially when he was so near his beloved wife.

As usual, like on Tuesday, mornings were reserved for study. River had her face in the computer making sure that she studied. It was apparent from day 1 that she intended to be on the Dean's List, and she was making great headway on that task.

...even when distracted by hubby.

The clock soon rolled around to 10:30AM and they had to leave the house and head down to the Arts Building at the University in order to be there in enough time for their activities class. No-one could tell who the instructor was supposed to be...and it had been like that for Tuesday. This was getting seriously annoying.

When they got there, they figured that they might spar a bit before class started, but eventually time ran out and class started. Still no instructor in sight, but just everyone planted themselves on the ground and started sketching. In fact some just ended up yacking through the entire activities class, but River and Haruo were not - they were studious and attended to their sketches as they were supposed to do, instructor or no instructor.

Meanwhile, Masatoshi was messing around with that big research machine in the plaza which all science and technology majors tended to congregate around. Frankly no-other majors in the whole advanced education field knew what that thing did, only that it was complicated and no-one could make heads or tails out of what that thing was supposed to accomplish. There were three entry terminals and an activation lever. For all the rest of the students could figure out, that thing could blow up the world or cause a black hole that would suck them all in including everything that existed...and science and technology majors tended to be a weird bunch of nerds who had no problem discussing the esoteric concepts of advanced AI and other things which caused those who didn't have that kind of understanding of those concepts to get serious headaches.

River and Haruo did spend their time mostly doing sketches and once the class was finished, they decided to do some sparring.

Then it was time to make dinner, throw out the food that had gone bad and study...

The next morning (Friday) was mid-terms, which would make up 50% of the assessment of their final grades which went towards qualifying for graduation and morning came soon enough.

Class-time was early and they had to be there early to write the tests.

With the stress of midterms, certainly there was no shortage of drama on campus.

Haruo wasn't happy with certain things (probably the non-existent teachers for the activities and lecture classes and I guess the stress-level got a bit much for him. He pulled out his megaphone and started ranting about teachers not showing up for their classes.

I guess he finally flipped his gourd: Isn't university fun?