My friends:
„Oh lord, exams are coming and we feel not prepared. The subject matter is so overwhelming large and time in contrast is so short. By God, if we had some days more…“

Speech:
„Who’s that who whishes so? My dear friends from university?
No, my fair friends…
If we are marked to fail, we are enough to help each other bear the misery and if to pass the fewer days the earlier we see relief.
God’s will, I pray thee wish not one day more.
By God, I am not covetous for 1,0
nor care I whether I’m the best,
It yearns me not that each task lies within my capabilities
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to seek to pass contentedly
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith my friends, wish not a stressful day of study more.
God’s peace, I would stake my life on it, that each and everyone of you is well prepared
right until the day he/she has to deliver!
Oh, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it my dear friends,
that he/she who has not stomach to this fight,
Let him/her sign off
All shall be settled in the lions portal for him/her
and a new date shall be given to him/her
We would not fail in that man’s/woman’s company that fears his/her fellowship to fail with us!

This phase is called examination phase.
Those who withstands that phase, and get through safe,
Will stand a tiptoe when this phase is nam’d
and rouse them at the final day of it.
Those who shall reach that day and feel relief shall later in reward feast with their friends and say
‚Together, we survived this term’s examination phase‘
Then will you look at your results and see your grades and say: ‚Huge was my success, in this term’s examination phase.‘

Lecturers forget, yet all shall be forgot,
but we’ll remember with adavantages what feats we did these days.
All of us shall be relieved and proud of each and everyone of us:
Stefan the king,
Luisa and Anna,
Pauline and Johanna,
Laura and Chantal.
Be the phase in our flowing cups
of vine and beer remembered.
This story shall a good student tell his friend
And this examination phase shall ne’er go by from this day to the ending of the world,
but we in it shall be remembered.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers and sisters.
For he/she these days who wrote exams with me shall be my brother/sister.
Be he/she ne’er so nervous
this speech shall better his/her condition.
And everyone who does not fight with us
Shall think accurs’d himself/herself
They were not here
and hold their breath while any speaks
that fought with us this in term’s examination phase.“

*lions portal = the name of the portal which the University Halle-Wittenberg uses to manage exams and student’s grades

Source:

The text is a modified version of the „St. Crispin’s Day Speech“ written by William Shakespeare and uttred by King Henry V. in William Shakespeares history play Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3. As reference I used the Arden Shakespeare Edition: Shakespeare, William: Henry V: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series. T. W. Craik (Ed.), London: Thomson Learning 2005 (Reprint).