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This student's story about her first college exam is so hilariously cringy

This is like something from a film.

Sam Haysom

on December 19, 2017

Exams are stressful enough without worrying about having the right notebook. Or worrying about finding the right building, or worrying about getting there on time. Or worrying about running into a glass window.

As nightmarish as it sounds, this is the tale of student Ann Mark's first college final exam -- in all its cringe-inducing, hilarious glory.

Last Friday, Mark -- a student at the University of Texas at Austin -- had an exam for World Cinema History.

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Her video account of what happened in the build-up to that exam has been retweeted over 130,000 times. At the time of writing the video has over 8 million views.

Enjoy:

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Pretty much the worst exam-based situation you could ever find yourself in, right?

Well, at least Mark got a nice viral tweet out of it.

She followed the video up with a thread shouting out to a bunch of different people who helped along the way...

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Eventually, some of the key players got wind of the video.

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Soon the actual College President himself got involved.

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Ultimately, though, most of the Twitter replies to Mark said a similar thing: she probably doesn't need to worry too much about her degree, because she's already clearly on track for big things...