High stakes finals
I've often referred to finals that are worth 40% or more of a total grade for a class as "High Stakes Finals". That's because it doesn't really matter what you have walking into the final, if you bomb it you'll kill your grade. Turns out I didn't know what high stakes was. High stakes is where if you don't pass, you don't graduate. If you don't graduate, you don't get the job you thought you had. If you don't get the job you thought you had, and you've already quit the job that you do have; well, that's often called homeless.
The stress is un-FUCKING-real. It's too much. The human brain can only process so much at a time, and when part of what you're trying it process is a difficult engineering course it doesn't leave much processing power for much else.
The stress is un-FUCKING-real. It's too much. The human brain can only process so much at a time, and when part of what you're trying it process is a difficult engineering course it doesn't leave much processing power for much else.