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Random Person

05:45

Hey @Zanna

How are you? I hope you are doing good.

Zanna

thanks! I'm doing great

today I'm just wrestling with Ask Ubuntu's EOL policy

very confusing

Random Person

You're welcome :)

@Zanna why so?

Zanna

how about you? I was hoping you'd come back to Ask Ubuntu

Random Person

I am kinda ok..

My results will be announced tomorrow.. and I'm kinda worried :(

Zanna

@RandomPerson in recent times Canonical have added some extended support options and started using the term End of Life in inconsistent ways

Thomas has asked for some clarification. Canonical say they are working on official definitions

that might help

@RandomPerson why are you worried? What might happen?

Random Person

05:52

@Zanna I am trying my best to do stuff in Ask Ubuntu.. but since I am no longer an Ubuntu user (as my PC stopped working few months ago).. I don't understand how I can contribute stuff in Ask Ubuntu..

@Zanna oh..

I do recall reading some question in meta about it. but didn't dig in deep..

@Zanna ok..

@Zanna I might fail few subjects :(

Zanna

I don't recommend digging - there's no gold

Random Person

@Zanna haha..

Zanna

@RandomPerson aww that sucks. how are you accessing the internet these days? will you be able to get a new computer some time?

Random Person

@Zanna I have a Windows laptop and couple of smartphones in home.

Zanna

@RandomPerson and then what might happen?

@RandomPerson oh! that's not so bad then :)

Random Person

05:56

@Zanna I really don't know. This might be the first time I might be failing in final exams.. so I don't know what's the procedure after failing..

@Zanna :)

Zanna

@RandomPerson why do you think you might be failing this time? What went wrong?

Random Person

@RandomPerson As far as what I read online.. they might remove me from the institute. But I hope that doesn't happen.

@Zanna The whole online classes drama was not my cup of tea. I didn't really focus much the whole academic year..

and then they started opening institutes in February..

and told us to prepare for the practical exams and complete projects, lab observation notes, lab records...

and then all of a sudden release the datesheet of final exam.. just 12 days (approx.) prior to the exams' commencement

studying the whole portion within 2 weeks was way tough..

@Zanna I just hope everything becomes alright..

Zanna

06:15

@RandomPerson I hope so too

Random Person

Zanna

I don't know how they do it here, but in the UK exam grades are peer-referenced, so if everyone does badly, the grade boundaries come down

Random Person

oh.. things are a bit different here.

So your entire schooling was done in UK and then you shifted to Chennai?

Zanna

06:31

@RandomPerson yes

Random Person

ok.. There are board of educations here in India. The most popular ones are CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) and CISCE(Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations)... and there are boards of education in individual states (which are generally referred as SSC)..

and there are two main exams(for 10th class and 12th class) held by these boards of education...

if you are free, go through this sub reddit: reddit.com/r/CBSE

Zanna

hmm

Random Person

How's the COVID situation in Chennai?

Zanna

06:50

well seems pretty calm really

recent seroprevalence survey found 41% of people in Chennai have been infected at some point

Random Person

hmm..

Zanna

I am hoping for a successful vaccine rollout

Random Person

yeah..

I'm kinda annoyed with the Covaxin's authorisation for emergency use as the phase 3 trial data is not out yet :(

Zanna

07:10

@RandomPerson yeah it's totally ridiculous

seems designed to create vaccine hesitancy where none existed before

Random Person

@Zanna yeah!

and the annoying thing is we can't choose the vaccine which we want. So people will rather prefer staying not vaccinated.

Zanna

yeah it's a terrible situation

Random Person

in the UK which vaccine is distributed? Is it the Oxford-AstraZeneca one?

Zanna

at the moment the Pfizer vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca one are both being given. Many doses of the Moderna vaccine have been ordered but not delivered yet

Random Person

ok..

10 hours later…

Zanna

16:59

@RandomPerson Hope to hear good news about your results tomorrow. If not, I hope you won't need to worry and there will be a good way forward

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