Finals: In the Rearview Mirror

We laugh to keep from crying...

Finals have been going on here at the university recently. I had my lost one today at 9:00am... so early! Not to mention that I got about an hour and a half of sleep and ended up showing up 40 minutes late to the final. Luckily my teacher is one of those guys who will just smile and shake his head. I finished the thing with plenty of time to spare, at any rate, and the class is a guaranteed decent grade. Would have been nice to dominate the test and get that A, but what can I say?

Anyways, I've made some observations about myself and about finals over the course of my three-day finals adventure:

• I am kind of lazy. Really. By the time I hit study day (Wednesday) I was budgeting study time 50/50 between actually studying and taking breaks in alternating one hour increments. In retrospect, that was an awful system and I should have started way earlier... because my studying was actually somewhat effective in two of my classes.
• Finals aren't that bad. They really aren't. I know it depends a lot on the course and instructor, but were I to sit down a good two weeks before finals and actually planned out legitimate study patterns... I probably would have shredded every one of my finals. So my goal for next semester is to do just that: shred every final.
• Swing dancing does NOT equal studying for a business exam. I went over to a nearby university last night for a Christmas ball... it was a fabulous time but it really didn't improve my knowledge of business at all. Needless to say, that final at 9:00am was a rough one but... well, y'know, when your grade can't go down due to the grading structure of the course...
• J is good at reading my business book to me at 3:30am. Such a trooper. I was falling asleep half the time...

In general, I feel okay about my finals. I really could have done better but for my first set of finals, I think I did pretty damn well. GPA concerns are starting to come up but as long as I do my job correctly (read: better) next semester, I think everything will be fine.

Let's hope so, anyways. P-O-S-I-T-I-V-I-T-Y! Positivity!

- E.