A loud yawn escaped from Jasmine's lips as she leaned back on her chair. Clearly, she could care less if the whole lecture hall heard her.
At this point, no one would bat an eyelid when someone said they only had an hour's sleep. The final examinations were approaching and everybody had been busy catching up with their studies by staying behind in school till night time and approaching their tutors for help.
Studying for examinations was one thing but having to attend every revision lecture had became a burden for almost every student who just wanted some time for themselves of self-studying. What made it an even bigger burden was that attendance was compulsory. An absence would automatically mean answering to your homeroom teacher and the most likely punishment was an hour-long detention that would serve nothing but waste precious time. Not to mention, there were fifteen days left to the most important examinations for their year.
It was evident that Jasmine was one of the many students who had little sleep with the way she rested her head on the table and by the sound of her loud snoring. People who were aware of her trying to catch some sleep could sympathise with her but they were all too engrossed in either their own conversations or re-reading their lecture notes while waiting for their lecturer to arrive.
Speaking of their lecturer, Mrs. Robinson was sure late. Of course, the lecturer would not start till eleven minutes later but she would usually be present fifteen minutes earlier without fail. Maybe she was caught in a bad traffic jam? Whatever it was, students were all secretly wishing that she would arrive late or not arrive at all so that they could all spend the unofficial free time doing their own revision.
However, it seemed that the students would not be getting their way when the doors were roughly pushed open revealing the slightly haggard looking Mrs. Robinson who had been robbed of her sleep herself. Seemed that the teachers themselves were suffering too.
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