April 11th 2025,

I do not believe I have ever written a post like this but please stick around as some wild stuff happened.

My first final of the day was my Canadian History one. This was hand written and was around 3 hours long, my hand was in a lot of pain. While I will not tell you exactly what the questions and topics were on the test as I believe that is illegal, or something, I will tell you some of the comments I made throughout. There was a topic about an economic theory, and while I was explaining what it was I mentioned in my answer (in parentheses) to read Das Kapital for a proper analysis of production and wages. Later on in the exam, during the essay, I mentioned Makenzie King’s affection towards Hitler and how the effected how he handled the war effort.

After that exam I had an hour before my polisci one and spent it studying with other students as I was invited to do so. It was fine for a bit but then things took a turn and I got uncomfortable. All the other students were very pro-Taiwan and essentially “cheered” on the DPP for not recognizing the 1992 consensus. One of the students said that, in a previous class, he had issues with the professor due to said professor “grading based on opinion.” I asked how and he said that he wrote a paper that claimed China was in a state of decline due to the birth rate and the professor didn’t agree, he then said “well I have the data.” So I asked him what data he used, he cited “a bunch” which included the WHO and “others.” I had to stop myself from saying “so only western sources?” I wish I was as strong as all of you, but I’m just not…

This same student also brought up how, when he was researching Taiwan, only 12 countries recognize it as independent. I asked “and you’re surprised by that?” He said not really but he was more shocked at which countries were on the list, like Haiti. He and the other students then praise Haiti for this and label it as “game recognizes game.” Which was annoying but I didn’t say anything. There were also comments made that “Communism killed millions” and that same guy as before said that he hated Mao but liked Deng because he was “smarter.”

Another student said that a planned economy was good, but then that guy made a ”🤨” face and replied “really?” The student backtracked and said that a planned economy was only good in the initial phases of development but not for industrialization, which the guy agreed with. This was hard to watch and frustrating but I was, again, too scared to say anything. It was like being met with a stereotype in real life. Also that guy is a big fan of Japan and is going there for his masters. I wish I could go overseas for mine but unless my rent and groceries are going to be paid for then I cannot do that.

After an hour we headed to our classroom and took the exam which was another 3 hours, my hand was already in pain and by the end of the day it could’ve well been put in a brace of some kind.

My results for both exams were A’s, and my GPA for the semester was a 4.0, so thats nice.