UNEB

In Brasil we have private and public colleges.

The public ones are divided in two categories: the state colleges and the federal colleges. The state ones are taken care by each state's governments; they provide the necessary funds to the school's subsistence. Same happens with the federal ones, but in their cases the country's government is responsible for the budgets et al.

UNEB is an acronym for Universidade Estadual da Bahia [Bahia's State University], being Bahia the state I live in. All universities, including UNEB, have a selective process called "vestibular" that the candidates to the 20/60 chairs [depending on the course and school] have to go through. The vestibular consists on 2 or 4 days [depending on the university] of exams of the basic disciplines: Portuguese, Brazillian Literature, English, Brazillian and General History, Geography, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Math and a 25/30 lines composition. Yeah it's a dog's life!

I applied this year to three public universities and have been waiting for their vestibular results. The results are crucial to my moving to Salvador. Tonight, UNEB's results were out. And...

[Song: On A Night Like This - Kylie Minogue]