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Freaking out about exams.
We're in the month of May! And you know what that means kiddies? EXAM SEASON! Be prepared to feel stressed out and...
Ah, fuck it. I can't do jokes when I'm like this. I've got exams starting in two weeks and sometime next month, and I'm completely freaking out about them and I'm worried that I'm gonna completely flunk each and every one of them. And I have to revise and prepare for all 4 of my exams, but all I'm doing is slacking off and trying to forget about it. Which isn't even working. I really want to know what to do before I have a mental breakdown and sing Kumbaya whilst cheerfully telling people my ways of killing people that eat spaghetti with meatballs. In my underwear. covered in mash potatoes. In fetal position.
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This video is not a joke. The music's gradually increasing texture (at least to me) represents the increasing anxiety as each precious moment ticks away before you have to face (what seems like) doomsday.
Oh, and the Final Toccata applies double if you've been pulling an all-nighter and are greeted to the glorious choir-of-angels-issuing-their-final-judgement-against-you feeling of watching the sun rise and being reminded that you have no time left and you are so totally screwed.
The secret is turning your computer off and go to your room to study
Your petty hopes are fruitless. No matter what random events may occur, anything that results in the cancelling of your exams will never happen.
Fun fact: My idea for Castlevania @ MIT has Walker Gymnasium, the large third-floor room and former gymnasium that's now commonly used for final exams (and other major exams), as the place of the final battle against Dracula.
You think freaking out about exams sucks now? You'll keep getting nightmares about upcoming exams long after you graduate.
^ This is so true.
I don't have nightmares about exams. Often I forget to study and end up doing well on them anyways =/
You don't know how many "dull nightmares" I've had of being unprepared for exams, presentations, and the like.
My dad finally stopped having exam nightmares in the last four years or so.
He's 59.
I haven't had exam nightmares so far. Though I did have a completely bizarre and nonsensical pre-exam dream, which, if I recall correctly, involved me piloting a mecha immediately before the exam.
Though I have never been one to freak out before an examination—I have extremely good declarative memory, and if I like a subject, I remember the important details to a letter—but I have several times freaked out during ones. Partly this is because I am very bad at taking major, long-form tests in certain environments; I become claustrophobic, worry about time, get headaches and so forth. Once I even had a full-on panic attack. It wasn't fun.
This was the case for me throughout high school. Except for the final 2 years, when the last part kinda stopped ringing true.
I still occasionally have exam nightmares, despite not having sat an exam since 1998.
For arts/essay-based subjects, anyway, the best way of dealing with exams is to know what your opinion is on the question that's asked, and develop your argument by setting out the evidence in support of it, whilst acknowledging that there's other evidence that goes against it (even though you don't agree with it for XYZ reason).
And DON'T FUCKING PANIC.
For some reason I've never had exam nightmares, despite the panic attacks, feeling sick etc. things being commonplace.
I actually started having exam nightmares _after_ finishing my degree.