A Student's Dire Cry

How are we two weeks away from exams?! Someone take me back to 16 when I was revising for fourteen GCSEs and a month beforehand I could have taken on any exam because I'd started my revision in March. March.

Fast-forward to my final year of uni and I'm crash-revising 120 lectures in the space of four weeks to just about make it for the night before the exam. Even then, I'll be lucky if I get through all the lectures. And that's when the desperate measures kick in and the selective revising begins and the mental decisions are made for which essay questions to skip out in the exam because you just haven't revised that topic. Period.

I have exactly fourteen days (no, thirteen days because this day no longer counts) to plough through a module for which I'm not even halfway through, a module that is the absolute devil of all my modules - the module for which information on the worldwide web is scarce (which is when you know you're screwed). Also, I caught a glimpse of some past paper questions for another module last night and I was stumped. I genuinely, for the life of me, couldn't answer the questions. The worst thing is, I was under the impression that that was the module I would be most prepared for. Oh the irony.

I should be panicking. Heck, I am panicking. Part of me wants this exam period to be done and over with...and the other half is begging time to slow down. I can't understand how there are not enough hours in the day to revise. Yes, maybe I should have started earlier but in my defence, I had a dissertation to submit and it just wasn't possible. Maybe that's my silver lining? My dissertation pulling up my below-average exam marks. My worst-case scenario is that I fail my modules but my dissertation and coursework marks miraculously see me pass them.

Yes, I have officially hit rock bottom, resorted to breaking down on my blog, and have reached a point where I will happily settle for simply a pass - just enough to get handed a piece of paper come July - despite my wishful aspirations for a first. Happy times.

P.s. I hope you guys like my blog re-vamp as much as I do. It's the most productive thing I've done all week.