A Different Kind of Test

Sweden has the most confusing doors in the world.
In the states, the constant is Pull to get in, push to get out: this allows for a quick exit in case of fire and prevents wind from blowing doors open.
In Sweden, there is no constant. Sometimes there are buttons, sometimes a code, sometimes a key card, sometimes a lever involved in unlocking a door. Once unlocked, however, there is no way to tell which way you are supposed to move to open said door: within the same buildings, doors will switch from pull to push to get in and out.
Conclusions reached by three embarrassed American females: Sweden has sublter ways of judging one's worth.
In the states, being accepted into a college is more difficult than in Sweden. Swedish university charges no tuition, and students are given a stipend to study with. However, if you cannot enter a building by decoding the puzzle of the entryways, you are obviously not worth the professors time, and you are thus kept away from attending class.
It is not only us Americans who have issues: I have watched as Australians, Brits, French, Germans, and Italians struggle with the concept of ever-changing, illogical doorways.
I thought I had developed a method to combat such confusion: to study the nature of the door before approaching it. However, measures have been taken to make them impossible to decipher from a distance. We've all encountered double-doors that have a metal pole between either the left or right door, and usually this pole is stationary. Here, it appears there is a pole that is partially in front of either the left or right door, making one assume you must push it open. BUT NO! There is no pole, its simply a useless strip of metal on the outside of the door, and you must pull this open.
I almost missed orientation because I could not enter the history building.
Plan 0 is floor one, and so forth.
Buildings are numbered and given letters: when you look at maps, they only give either the letter or number, and matching the two is impossible unless you walk back and forth between two maps to match letters and numbers as they are needed.
When given the location of a class, it is written 6:0034. Building 6 (which is actually K), plan 0, room 34.
Sometimes I miss having buildings with names.
And doors that make sense.
I have failed the Swedish test.