My exam desk today had "EXAMS: UNIVERSITY OF KENT" printed in the top left hand corner. And underneath the 'exams' bit, someone had scrawled "r shit". Not "are shit", even. This really bothered me and I'm not sure why!
Exams are definitely shit. I really really don't enjoy them, especially not this year. I don't actually know anybody who actively enjoys sitting in a room for 2 or 3 solid hours, getting hand cramp and shiny fingers and brain numbness (oh, and I have a blister on my finger from writing so much. Pfft.) while concentrating incredibly hard. But having said that, once I've got into the exam hall and sat down, I sort of switch to a frame of mind whereby I think "I have two hours to prove myself. Two hours to try really bloody hard and do my best. Two hours and it'll be over." And consequently, I get on with it and deal with the shitness. Admittedly, sometimes I leave half an hour or so early, but I've always ensured I've written absolutely everything I could have, no matter how little that is, how little I revised, or how stupid the questions made me feel. I know that if I try really hard, I'll probably not fail.
However, the person who graffitti-ed the above on the desk clearly didn't respond like I do to exams, and decided instead to spend their time constructively damaging uni property, and in bloody text talk, no less!
Having thought about it, that may have been what's annoyed me the most!
4 down. 2 to go.
6 comments:
Exams on a saturday r especially shit...poor you. But you're more than half way through now that must give you some peace of mind.
I've found they've dragged quite a lot this year - well my last one at any rate. I'm worried by that mainly because it feels to me that I don't know enough stuff to write about. In short, I'm scared.
Good luck with the rest of your exmas!
No, I've felt the same. Whilst I've pretty much written for the whole 2 hours in most of the exams, I haven't exactly been scribbling away and have had plenty of time to do some people-watching and a bit of contemplative daydreaming (including thinking about writing this blog, lol).
Good luck with yours, too; when do you finish?
Finish on Wednesday this week.
2 hours exams, try 3 ;o) that said whatever lenght of time your exams are they're still no fun.
I'm currently panicking - she says procrastinating on the net - two more exams and they're the two I'm most unsure about. Added to which the internet is down at home right now.
Blah!
I know, I'm so lucky this year, all my modules are 15-credit ones so only 2 hours long. Last year they were all 3 hours, urgh.
I finish on Thursday, so high five! One tomorrow morning and one Thursday afternoon.
I know exactly what you mean; my last two exams are two of the hardest and the ones I concentrated least on during the last two terms! I sat down at 1pm to go through stuff for tomorrow's exam and I'm not doing tooo badly, internet procrastination aside...Got one more topic to cover (How do new technologies affect the concept of kinship) then I think I'll stop, relax, and then go over it more around 8 or 9 tonight. And a brief flick-through tomorrow morning.
Are you a crammer or a long-drawn-out revisioner? I've always been a crammer...if I revise way ahead of time, I go back and go "oh yes, I remember this...sort of...I think..." But if I revise the day before, and look over it about an hour before the exam, then with any luck I can manage to sit in the exam hall, splurge it onto paper, and then promptly forget all about it again! :D
I'm a bit of both really. I cram and I do the long drawn out revision - well moreso this year, I seem to be a tad more ofganised *touches wood* even if some of my lecturers aren't!
I find I have to go over and over things again and again for me to really remember them. It frustrates me to the point of bordom sometimes but it's got to be done. However, I don't hold out much hope for myself this year - I've just got this *feeling*...
I'm on the internet now reseraching the Downstreet Declaration and I just happened to click onto your blog :oD
hehe sorry to dissapoint claire but i sorta like exams. :) i like to try and prove that im good enough (yeah i know my insecurities are shining through today) and i really like the knoledge that after the exams i can rest for a little while at least.
it would really annoy me that it was in text talk too. i would just think "well you should just drop out then idiot"
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