Charie's Menagerie

I was still busy stuffing my valuables inside my bag when I heard a familiar voice calling my name on the other side of the door. I instinctively answered ‘come in’. It was Yem calling so we can leave for our law exam. I wasn’t ready yet. I just finished answering Suarez’s sample exam two minutes before that and I was cramming all my things.
I got my jacket and we left. Just before I closed the door, I decided to leave my law book and my sample exam handout (ok I realized that it’s no use carrying those since I won’t need it).
During the exam, I saw familiar questions. Almost the same questions I was answering a while ago. There were some I didn’t know but tried answering through ‘intelligent’ guess. I finished the exam in about an hour. I was already reviewing my answers for the third time (I was thinking of submitting it) when about twenty minutes before the end our teacher announced,

“Class I forgot to say that this is an open notes exam.”

Rumblings came, protests of students who diligently answered those numbers while relief to those who were not quite sure about their answers. Although my classmates were rejoicing, I was horror-stricken to hear the news. My bag is full of what I thought were valuable items that I proved useless to give me the information during that exam.

Lesson learned: bring your notes during the exam. You’ll never know when to need them.
(Good thing, Rosevi was kind enough to let me borrow hers. Thank you very much Rose!)