An anxious filled week filled with too much coffee, studying, and just not enough sleep. Thankfully for me, I only have one more day to endure the stress before I am on my way to Disneyland!
(Don't fret, there will be a post or two sprinkled with pixie dust!)
Until then I still have one more exam to study for, a paper to finish, and a paper topic proposal to submit. Needless to say, I am drinking my weight in coffee and hoping these bags under my eyes aren't permanent!
What I have finally learned over the course of my college career is that cramming just really does me no good. Cramming for these midterms really only fuels the fire of the anxiety that is inherently present this time of year.
Of course professors have always been saying this, but I thought I had it all figured out. I would cram and stress, then dump everything out of my brain on the paper the next day and move on.
For my final set of midterms (thank goodness) I decided I wouldn't let my procrastination get the better of me. I have paid far better attention this semester and read way more than I ever have for all of my classes (priorities).Already knocking one of my midterms down, I went into it nearly stress free. I knew that whatever I had learned since January was stored safely in my brain. I also knew I wouldn't get 100% on the exam so when I hit the questions I couldn't muster up an answer for, I moved onto the next one that I knew easily.
I'm sure I didn't get a high A, but hey, I'm really just trying to graduate this semester.
Another huge help for this exam I noticed was that I didn't drink any coffee or caffeine whatsoever the morning of the exam. I was a little more tired than usual (hello, hardly any sleep with all the work for every other class), but I was not frazzled by any means going into the hour long exam.
Today I am guzzling down cup of coffee after cup of coffee to power through the finishing touches of a paper and everything else I have to get done today. Especially since I haven't gotten a full eight hours of sleep any night this week and tonight will be no exception.
Probably the only two things keeping me alive this week and not having anxiety attacks left and right, are coffee and the excitement of my Disney trip this weekend!
Alas, I need to get back to my misery. Stay tuned for some Disney magic this weekend!
