Against All Odds...
The following morning, Miriam and her roommate woke up early. There was still one final thing they needed to complete: their clearance. They had already gone through most of the offices and collected the necessary signatures, and only the final stage remained. After weeks of moving from one office to another, waiting in queues, collecting signatures, their clearance was finally complete.
'Now we can focus properly on the defense.' The project defense was the final major academic responsibility they had left. That afternoon, they returned to their hostel and brought out their completed projects. They read through the introduction, objectives, methodology, findings, and recommendations - they wanted to understand every part, because the lecturers could ask questions from almost anywhere.
'Okay. Ask me questions.' They questioned each other, corrected each other's answers, rehearsed their presentations for days. 'What if I forget everything when I enter that room?' 'You won't. You wrote the project. You know your work.' The night before the defense, they arranged everything they would need. The following morning, they left the hostel together for the department where coursemates were already rehearsing answers quietly.
[Campus-fiction serial; continued in the thread.]
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