University exam

Ezra Finch
7 min readAug 15, 2022

For work reasons I am studying to have a second degree, so even if by now with a respectable position within a well-known multinational, my master’s degree and private life and all the surrounding bullshit I find myself having to go in faculty with these twenty-year-olds all the same to take exams.
Last week I showed up on time to take an exam that included a test on PCs.
I am outside the classroom waiting for the opening and for the professor to arrive, the hall comes alive with young people and girls with bulging bellies and pointy shoes, I observe them and I feel light years away from them; while I reflect on the differences between them and me I see a brunette a little less than me tall, about 1.72, straight black hair that reaches mid-back, beautiful shoes very high stilettos very elegant, a very tight black suit with the skirt that arrives a little above the knee, a not large breast, perhaps a third one which however is highlighted by her elegant ensemble. She has olive skin, it is not clear whether it is because of the lamps or if it is her own.
She puts her leather bag next to a chair and sits in front of me, across the hall, almost spontaneously I give her a smile, which she kindly returns; she must have noticed me by force, among so many ripped jeans and colored T-shirts, I’m the only one in a gray suit and tie or I pass for a teacher too or you understand that I’m out of age; so much so that when a couple of guys approach me I…

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