my future profession and colleagues.

For some reason, these comments posted on actuarial forums are both comforting and disturbing me.

Context: In a few minutes, budding actuaries are going to find out whether they passed 1 out of the 10 or so actuarial exams. Everybody's freaking out in forums, and I am shaking in my boots myself.

Comment 1:

"So what's everyone's strategy for (hopefully) finding your candidate number in the list?

- Frantically scroll through the list, column by column.
- Ctrl + F: no build-up, quick and to the point.
- Have someone see if it's there
- Wait till next week and just check your transcript....ha."

Comment 2:

"After running a simulation the expected release time was 10:10 with a variance of 225 min, giving a 95% confidence interval of about 9:55 to 10:25."

Comment 3 (a series of responses):

A: so, 487 viewing exams...Are we going to set a traffic record today with 2 prelim exams coming out?
B: idk, what's the record?
C: "Most users ever online was 1,647, 07-02-2009 at 10:45 AM. I stand corrected. It was recently. Yeah we might do it"

Riveting stuff. If I don't make it in sane condition through this profession, I just want to let all of you know that you are the most amazing group of friends ever.

Well, not as if I have any alternative empirical evidence to cross-reference against.

D'OH!