What pisses me off is that they give 8:00 AM exams to classes that are at 9:30 or 10:00 normally. We didn't sign up for 8AM class, why would they give us 8AM finals...grrrr!!! I've had 3 finals in 2 days...done pretty well on all of them. 2 more to go.
Wake up juice recipe Make Coffee with at least a 1 cup of beans. Use Caffinated Water, not tap water. In the mug combine Brewed coffee with amply amounts of sugar and at least one tea bag, I prefer Earl Grey. Trust me don't leave out the sugar. It will taste nasty without it. Also, be preparred to crash hard or keep on drinking it.
ive had trouble sleeping recently, i used to have a method but it failed. The day before I stayed up 24 hours with a 1 hour nap in the middle to write a paper, it was hell because i was too groggy to write but i couldnt sleep, knowing that if i took a nap, my brain would sort it out. caffiene just made it worse too. i tried sleeping three times and couldnt sleep for half an hour each time in which i gave up. nyquil works, but you will feel weird the next day, dont do it, take it from me. and third, you dont need to answer this, what law school are you at? how's the work during the rest of the year?
oh yeah, and the irony is that my dad is working on producing a new sleep drug and his company is full of sleep experts.
The last 2 years, I haven't slept well at all while at school. I should be down with the Nyquil thing, but I always worry I'll become dependent upon it to sleep.
I'm afraid of that too. I have been a major insomniac this entire semester. Right now my sleeping pattern is like 4-5 AM until whenever I have to get up the next day. I hate it, but I'm afraid to do the Nyquil thing or anything else because in the long run it may make it worse.
Or you can substitute, history, physics, calc, or any other subject... but as soon as I get up to turn the lights off my sleep seems to go away and I feel like getting back online and reading some more posts.
word. exact same thing happens to me. i have a bottle of tylenol sleep, but for some reason i never take em. i guess i just like staying up real late.
You guys have time to sleep? I've gotten MAYBE 15 hours of sleep the last three nights. I hate it, I'm a decent student (3.2 GPA), I work hard, but I'm still BOMBING this semester. Doesn't look liek I'll be able to salvage it either. Between working two jobs, a gig, 5 finals, 3 papers and a presentation, it's not a real fun week.
50 Things to do During Finals 1. Bring a pillow. Fall asleep (or pretend to) until the last 15 minutes. Wake up, say ``oh geez, better get cracking'' and do some gibberish work. 2. Get a copy of the exam, run out screaming ``Andre, Andre, I've got the secret documents!!'' 3. If it is a math/science exam, answer in essay form. If it is long answer/essay form, answer with numbers and symbols. Be creative. Use the surface integral symbol. 4. Make paper airplanes out of the exam. Aim them at the instructor's left nostril. 5. Talk the entire way through the exam. Read questions aloud, debate your answers with yourself out loud. If asked to stop, yell out, ``I'm SOOO sure you can hear me thinking.'' Then start talking about what a jerk the instructor is. 6. Bring cheerleaders. 7. Walk in, get the exam, sit down. About five minutes into it, loudly say to the instructor, ``I don't understand ANY of this. I've been to every lecture all semester long! What's the deal? And who the hell are you? Where's the regular guy?'' 8. Bring a Game Boy. Play with the volume at max level. 9. On the answer sheet find a new, interesting way to refuse to answer every question. For example: I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it conflicts with my religious beliefs. Be creative. 10. Bring pets. 11. Run into the exam room looking about frantically. Breathe a sigh of relief. Go to the instructor, say ``They've found me, I have to leave the country'' and run off. 12. Fifteen minutes into the exam, stand up, rip up all the papers into very small pieces, throw them into the air and yell out ``Merry Christmas.'' If you're really daring, ask for another copy of the exam. Say you lost the first one. Repeat the process every fifteen minutes. 13. Do the exam with crayons, paint, or fluorescent markers. 14. Come into the exam wearing slippers, a bathrobe, a towel on your head, and nothing else. 15. Come down with a BAD case of Turet's Syndrome during the exam. Be as vulgar as possible. 16. Do the entire exam in another language. If you don't know one, make one up. For math/science exams, try using Roman numerals. 17. Bring things to throw at the instructor when he's not looking. Blame it on the person nearest you. 18. As soon as the instructor hands you the exam, eat it. 19. Walk into the exam with an entourage. Claim you are going to be taping your next video during the exam. Try to get the instructor to let them stay, be persuasive. Tell the instructor to expect a percentage of the profits if they are allowed to stay. 20. Every five minutes, stand up, collect all your things, move to another seat, continue with the exam. 21. Turn in the exam approximately 30 minutes into it. As you walk out, start commenting on how easy it was. 22. Do the entire exam as if it was multiple choice and true/false. If it is a multiple choice exam, spell out interesting things (DCCAB, BABE, etc.) 23. Bring a black marker. Return the exam with all questions and answers completely blacked out. 24. Get the exam. Twenty minutes into it, throw your papers down violently, scream out ``**** this!'' and walk out triumphantly. 25. Arrange a protest before the exam starts (e.g. Threaten the instructor that whether or not everyone's done, they are all leaving after one hour to get drunk.) 26. Show up completely drunk. (Completely drunk means that at some point during the exam, you should start crying for mommy.) 27. Every now and then, clap twice rapidly. If the instructor asks why, tell him in a very derogatory tone, ``The light bulb that goes on above my head when I get an idea is hooked up to a clapper. DUH!'' 28. Comment on how sexy the instructor is looking that day. 29. Come to the exam wearing a black cloak. After about 30 minutes, put on a white mask and start yelling ``I'm here, the phantom of the opera'' until they drag you away. 30. Go to an exam for a class you have no clue about, where you know the class is very small, and the instructor would recognize you if you belonged. Claim that you have been to every lecture. Fight for you right to take the exam. 31. Bring a water pistol with you. 'Nuff said. 32. Try to get people in the room to do the wave. 33. From the moment the exam begins, hum the theme to Jeopardy. Ignore the instructor's requests for you to stop. When they finally get you to leave one way or another, begin whistling the theme to the Bridge on the River Kwai. 34. Start a brawl in the middle of the exam. 35. If the exam is math/science related, make up the longest proofs you could possibly think of. Get pi and imaginary numbers into most equations. If it is a written exam, relate everything to your own life story. 36. Come in wearing a full knight's outfit, complete with sword and shield. 37. Bring a friend to give you a back massage the entire way through the exam. Insist this person is needed, because you have bad circulation. 38. Bring cheat sheets FOR ANOTHER CLASS (make sure this is obvious. . . like history notes for a calculus exam. . . otherwise your're not just failing, you're getting kicked out too) and staple them to the exam, with the comment ``Please use the attached notes for references as you see fit.'' 39. When you walk in, complain about the heat. Strip. 40. After you get the exam, call the instructor over, point to any question, ask for the answer. Try to work it out of him. 41. One word: Wrestlemania. 42. Bring balloons, blow them up, start throwing them around like they do before concerts start. 43. Do the exam on your laptop. Make sure the simulated keyboard noises are on. 44. Play frisbee with a friend on the other side of the room. 45. Bring some large, cumbersome, ugly idol. Put it right next to you. Pray to it often. Consider a small sacrifice. 46. Get deliveries of candy, flowers, balloons, telegrams, etc. sent to you every few minutes throughout the exam. 47. During the exam, take apart everything around you. Start with your calculator, move on to your desk, your chair, anything you can reach. 48. Complete the exam with everything you write being backwards at a 90 degree angle. 49. Bring a musical instrument with you, play various tunes. If you are asked to stop, say ``it helps me think.'' Bring a copy of the Student Handbook with you, challenging the instructor to find the section on musical instruments during finals. Don't forget to use the phrase ``Told you so.'' 50. Answer the exam with the ``Top Ten Reasons Why Professor Sussman Sucks.''
I try to avoid studying for a little.. then I come here and a thread like this makes me feel guilty that I'm not studying for finals right now! geez people..... I doubt I will sleep too too much in the next week or so.. I have a lot of studying to do, and my luck I will oversleep or something and miss an exam.. I had a little trouble falling asleep last night because I was thinking about tests, but usually it's a matter of falling asleep when I'm trying to stay awake... Sleep is an option....
After three nights of a combined 13 hours sleep, I slept for 12 hours last night. I didn't have anything due today (and am nearing the end of the longest week of my life) so I took advantage of it. 4 finals down, 2 to go. 2 papers to go. Thank God I have until Monday for most of this stuff.
Me too. I had an exam this morning, and I went to bed around 1:45am to get enough sleep. My exam was at 11am and I wanted atleast 1hr more of studying in the morning. I could not sleep. I must have been in bed for 2hrs roling around.
Like I said in the sleep playlist thread, I have now resorted to sleeping during the day and studying all night.... Yesterday I had been asleep for an hour and a half when I jolted awake thinking, "what time is it! what day is it! oh my god, did I miss a final?" I tend to go through that every 2 hours or so.... It's like my body refuses to let me sleep.... All that will be over with saturday, thank god. Had a vertebrate physiology final yesterday Had a matrices and a statistics final today Have a cell biology final saturday. It never fails, I ALWAYS have a final on saturday. Damn UT admins!
