It's Over

[brookiki]

I just finished my Crim law exam about 45 minutes ago and sent it in. I'm trying not to stress too much, because it's out of my hands now.

I thought I'd share this email I received to give everyone an idea of why I'm so stressed out:

Physical Plant will be working on the heating system on 12-14-08, Sunday night/Monday Morning from midnight

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[fayoreix2]

*pats*

I can't even imagine how hard that test was. But, you did the most important thing, and that's to have put all you could into your test.

Oooh, I never knew other types could work that late!!! A lot of times at finals, when I was in art, we'd work all night the night before the last critique. Good times.@-@

Take some medicine and sleep. It's the best remedy. Be a little lazy, though. It's a good time, believe me. We're complete opposites sometimes, you know? But I think I should be more hard-working sometimes as well.

What I'd do, is relax a couple of days... fix the paper, so it's not looming on the mind, and then go all out relaxation. Reading books and watching movies is certainly not unreasonable, in my opinion.

[brookiki]

I don't work nearly as hard as I should. Yesterday, I ended up stopping in the middle of the afternoon to watch "What Not to Wear."

I slept till about four today. I was very bad. :-) Are we going to start reading that book now?

[fayoreix2]

Oh no, you watched a show!:P

How? I want to be able to do that. I get up at 1 no matter what. Sleeping is good, though.

I don't know, are we?;X

[brookiki]

I say yes!

[michygeary]

Is this the one that counts for 100% of your grade?

And wow, if they're expecting students to be studying from midnight to 6am, they really should evaluate their curriculum. That's ridiculous.

If you need any help with paper revisions, you can shoot it over to me, and I'd be happy to give it a look. Sometimes it's helpful to have another set of eyes look it over, and I've been doing papers all semester; I've sort of built up my own strength in it, heh.

And I hope you recover when this semester is over. I've just completed what I think must have been my most difficult semester...ever. I'm still shaken up by it. Even two days after it's all over, I'm still stressing out over the stuff I have to do -- which is nothing. It's like some kind of post-trauma. I've never had a reaction like this before. >_

[brookiki]

Yup. 100%. And I keep having this irrational fear that somehow it didn't get there. I did everything properly, but I can't help being paranoid.

The curriculum is insane. The memo I got before I started actually said I'd need to devote 70 hours per week to law school *shudders* I don't, so I'm obviously not the one competing for all the A's.

I may take you up on that offer. I need to actually look at the comments and make changes, but it might really help to get some outside input on the writing style.

It sounds like you've had a rough semester. You had a lot of end-of-the-year projects, right? That will kill anyone.

[dreagoddess]

In my experience, the people who do the best on exams are not the ones studying between 12-6am. But people will always do it. *eyeroll* Congrats on being done!!

[brookiki]

Thanks! Now I can do fun stuff, like decorate the Christmas tree!

Our introductory memo we got from the law school actually suggested spending 70 hours a week studying. I don't know how you would manage that, but apparently some of them take it to heart.

I heard an interesting theory on it, though. Basically, people are really nervous about exams and they convince themselves that if they study for hours and hours and hour, then they'll end up with a good grade because that's the only fair outcome. Also, I've seen some people treat it like a competition.

[fayoreix2]

My finals week was last week. But I was stressed, and when I get stressed, I draw. It's not like, escapism, but drawing always calms me down immensely.

I like the little -tan things people made, akin to human forms of stuff like Pokemon, operating systems, cars, even video game consoles.

So why not a flower, I thought? I've always liked the thorns on that rose. They look so cool. One random night I thought it'd be cool to do it, and during a couple lectures in the morning it came to fruition more.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Fayorei/finalsericea.jpg

A gift for completing finals. I know, a tasty drink or something would be much better, but what can you do?=p

PS: How fast should I be reading this book? You're probably a demon at reading from your text books, lol.

[brookiki]

Aw, thank you. It's adorable. And I can read it!

Just normal pace. I read fairly quickly, but I want you to enjoy it, so you'll finish when you finish.

[fayoreix2]

Oh? Impressive! Most people find Katakana harder to learn than hiragana.

Is that a challenge?!?!

I can be quick with fiction. I do enjoy as well. I like to do everything big though, and I get easily suckered in by "what happens next?"

I'm winning this one.>:D

[brookiki]

We learned katakana first. The logic was that since katakana are usually used for English words, a beginning student could find lots of recognizable vocabulary in a typical Japanese situation. It made a lot of sense.

It wasn't meant to be, but why not? Challenges are always good!

And I have the same problem. I've read all night before, because I never could find a good stopping point in my book.