My right hand is about to fall off. I just finished the third of my three consecutive midterms, and while I couldn’t be more relieved, I’m pretty sure that my hand will never actually recover. People in the real world don’t have to worry about this sort of thing (not to say that people in the real world don’t get carpal tunnel, just that they don’t have to spend 3 hours in the course of a day hand writing as frantically and messily as possible while trying to keep their blood pressure down from the stress). Why do we still do timed writing anyway? Somehow professors think it’s more fair to subject students to an hour and a half of throbbing pain than to let them calmly fill in little bubbles. It’s more fair to people who “aren’t good test takers.” What about people who never learned to do their handwriting correctly so that everytime they take a test their knuckles are red for a week?

*grins*

I am, it turns out, a poor studier. That is to say, I just don’t like to study that much. My take-home Econ midterm isn’t due till 5:00 tomorrow. I had plenty more time to study. I could have studied, gotten a good night’s sleep, studied some more, taken it in the afternoon, and still turned it in on time. Perhaps a sane person would have done this. No, I couldn’t do a thing like that. Instead, I decided it was better to procrastinate for two hours (a combination of surfing around the Wordpress website and watching Death to Smoochy with my roommates), then haphazardly study for an hour or so, load up on caffeine, and take the thing tonight. And you know what, I couldn’t have made a better decision. There is nothing more satisfying than making an obviously stupid decision and getting away with it.

Note to self: never let my children read any of this. Ever.

Posted on April 30th, 2004 by Lee
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