After multiple semesters of watching students sweat during their last week of torture before the summer holiday’s Gonga has picked up a thing or two about sucessful studying.
1) Coffee is a must. No sane student goes without coffee for more than a three hour period while studying for finals. To put it more clearly, only the crazy students deprive themselves of coffee during those last crucial minutes of study.
2) Sleep is over-rated. It always has been. As one famous person (now long dead) once declared, “There’ll be time enough to sleep when I’m dead!” Presumably he is indulging in that pleasure at the moment. Students currently attempting to pass their own exams should adopt his maxim as their own.
3) Stress is an abosulte necessity. Nothing else can provide enough energy to pour over archaic textbooks fulls of useless information late into the night. Especially when the textbook is usually so dry that it has been propping open your dorm room door for the entire semester.
4) Pandora radio is yet another item requisite for completing your final week of school. Music is food for the soul, and the right kind of music can be energy to encourage all that studying. Just make sure you don’t go over your monthly forty houre limit before finals hit. That could get ugly.
5) Last, but not least, for get any attempts to maintain perspective. Finals are you life. Your grades will disctate your success or failure for the next decade of your existence. If you didn’t believe this, you would fail to study as hard as possible. Therefore you must remind yourself of this fact hourly. “My grades are my life.” Repeat each time you crack open your textbook. Repeat it as you sit quaking in the exam room, pencil in hand, waiting for your scan-tron. Repeat it as sweat pours into your eyes, making it difficult to read the questions.
If all the steps are followed religiously, you just might survive finals week.
At least, this has been Gonga’s observation. He’s glad that all he has to do is hand out flyers and sell textbook
1) Coffee is a must. No sane student goes without coffee for more than a three hour period while studying for finals. To put it more clearly, only the crazy students deprive themselves of coffee during those last crucial minutes of study.
2) Sleep is over-rated. It always has been. As one famous person (now long dead) once declared, “There’ll be time enough to sleep when I’m dead!” Presumably he is indulging in that pleasure at the moment. Students currently attempting to pass their own exams should adopt his maxim as their own.
3) Stress is an abosulte necessity. Nothing else can provide enough energy to pour over archaic textbooks fulls of useless information late into the night. Especially when the textbook is usually so dry that it has been propping open your dorm room door for the entire semester.
4) Pandora radio is yet another item requisite for completing your final week of school. Music is food for the soul, and the right kind of music can be energy to encourage all that studying. Just make sure you don’t go over your monthly forty houre limit before finals hit. That could get ugly.
5) Last, but not least, for get any attempts to maintain perspective. Finals are you life. Your grades will disctate your success or failure for the next decade of your existence. If you didn’t believe this, you would fail to study as hard as possible. Therefore you must remind yourself of this fact hourly. “My grades are my life.” Repeat each time you crack open your textbook. Repeat it as you sit quaking in the exam room, pencil in hand, waiting for your scan-tron. Repeat it as sweat pours into your eyes, making it difficult to read the questions.
If all the steps are followed religiously, you just might survive finals week.
At least, this has been Gonga’s observation. He’s glad that all he has to do is hand out flyers and sell textbook
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