I feel like crap.

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(Real Life stuff.)

Need to disengage from LJ again. I've been procrastinating desperately (because I Am Stupid), but if I want to pass even half of my exams - a prospect which due to very successful procrastination strategies begins to look extremely unlikely - I will have to work hard from now on. Ah frell, and I just finished catching up with you all again... Well, I guess I'll try and keep reading my flist but stop posting for a while. I'll be back after ExamsHell. (I will try and post the second part of the con report sometime, though - before I completely forget what happened!)

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[just-misguided.livejournal.com]

It'll all be OK, don't stress! (too much... I know it's impossible not to stress at little)
I just keep telling myself that, and just get on with it - there's no other way, is there?

Yeah, problem is, I don't.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Get on with it, that is. I've been procrastinating since the beginning of the holidays. I've done nothing, and I do mean *nothing*. I don't even manage to get up in the morning, even when the pressure is so high I can hardly go to sleep at night. I got up at 2 p.m. today, which means I don't have any time to revise today, again - too much other stuff to do, packing, cleaning up, doing the dishes, cooking...

And out of the roughly four weeks that remain for revising, I will lose about 10-12 days because I'm travelling to Germany tomorrow and also have various other things planned with friends whom I can only meet while I'm still in Britain - i.e. exactly in the time span that I should use for revising. So, that leaves me with rougly twenty days to revise for three three hour exams. And that I really believe is impossible. Oh, and there's an essay to write, as well.

I will have to give up on at least one of the exams, I think. Probably sociology, since I meant to drop that subject, anyway. Also, it's two days before the hardest of the exams, and I had really better concentrate on that one.

The worst part of all this is that it shows me too clearly for comfort all the faults I have that are responsible for me still being in university in the first place. More and more I feel as if I'm just wasting my time here, as I was clearly not made to succeed in university. (Nor anywhere else, it would seem.)

Also great:

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I can't look at the past exam papers. I tried at home, and my computer couldn't open the files. I tried here, at uni, and the browser crashes every frelling time, and I can't print them out. Arrrrrgh. How am I supposed to find out what to prepare for?

Re: Yeah, problem is, I don't.

[just-misguided.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! Sounds like your in for a rough ride!

But try not to focus on the negative too much - don't write off exams yet, there's still time. I have 6 exams in 3 weeks and a presentation to give... so I know how paniced and scary it is.

The thing is to break the cycle - so set your alarm and get up early tomorrow if you can. But stop thinking about the time you don't have - think about the time you *do* have. Even if you only have half an hour, do some/I> revision; pick up a text book, talk to the resident stuffed animal about the exam, anything! It'll make you feel so much better, believe me.

But the most important tenent of revision? I refer you to the 'Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' -

DON'T PANIC!!