What follows is an account of the last four and a half days of my life:
So since last Friday, my life has consisted of preparing for my midterms. I would wake up, get some coffee, eat something, and then start poring through notes and books and test problems.
This was the kind of obsessive studying that is bad for my health. The kind where I glance at the clock and realize that that it's 6 PM and I haven't had any food since breakfast. Each morning, I wake up with the same screaming headache I had when I went to sleep. It's woefully inefficient, but I've let myself fall so far behind in my text readings that it was the only prayer I had of passing my exam today.
The test is presently 90 minutes from beginning, and I'm trying to let my brain cool down. At multiple points, which have been growing more frequent and closer between, I have found myself hitting a mental wall where I simply can't think anymore. When this happens, the moment I try to start reading there is a screaming feeling in my head, my eyes start to ache, and I get dizzy. Also, in a fashion similar to being intoxicated, I simply find myself unable to think clearly. I think I broke my head.
Since the exam is so late, I've been setting myself to a sleep cycle that has me waking up close to noon, in hopes of not growing tired until well after the test is over. So my general schedule has me waking around 11 or 12, and then studying until around 10 PM. Intermittent breaks for some light gaming, youtube videos, and other distractions have been more frequent than intended, but just as my mind was reaching true exhaustion last night, I reached the end of my study material. The exam is open note (which is not nearly as helpful as one might think, in a tax class) and I've put together fairly well-organized notes of all the study material. There will be a substantial time factor in the exam, and everyone has told me that having condensed but robust notes is a major key to victory.
In short, I am well-rested, as well-prepared as I can be under the circumstances, and I have just enough sanity left to hold myself together for the next few hours. After that exam ends, I can breath for a bit. I only work three days before the end of next week, I don't have any other major due dates until a week from tomorrow, and Assassin's Creed 2 came in from Gamefly today. If I'm feeling saucy, I may even pick up a bottle of something on the way home.
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