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inal frustrations
Panic-stricken students burn the midnight oil
Finals. For better or worse, they
are one aspect of university life
that students all over the country
dread. Common as they may be,
it is up to the individual to decide
how he will deal with them. At Idaho
·the methods of coping with finals
are as unique as its students.
For those few who actually stay
caught up with their classes, finals
pose no real problem since these
students simply have to review
material. However, for most
students studying is something to be
avoided, even for finals. Thus,
students have devised some ingenious
ways of preparing for exams
at the last minute.
There are those who let
everything slide until dead week.
Then they spend the entire week
staying up until two or three in the
morning madly reading twelve
weeks' worth of assignments. These
students are often very irritable from
a lack of necessary sleep.
The true procrastinator, however,
dispenses with dead week
altogether. Rather, he prefers the
"all night cramming session." These
sessions can be divided into two
groups. The first features small
groups of procrastinators who try to
pound the multitude of information
in tv each other. The second type of
all-night studier is the one that
studies alone.. This student often
wakes up the next morning, after
dozing off over his books, and finds
a cold, half-full cup of coffee and a
partly-eaten bag of chips at his side.
Most any student can tell horror
stories about living on Vivarin, seeing
through bloodshot eves. And,
most of them will swear never to do
it again. Yet come finals week each
semester, shortages of stimulates
such as Vivarin always arise at the
local drugstores.
There are many ways to prepare
for finals. For the students at Idaho,
however, there is only one way to
celebrate the culmination of these
exams - attending Happy Hour at
their favorite bar.
Julie Reagan D
Boolcworm.
Lectures can be znore meaningful to the
students If they k-p up on the reading
a88lgmnents. Scott Tuomey reads over a
chapter In his Psychology textbook prior
to clautlme. (photo by M. Touhey)
Problem solving.
Matt Fullenwlde. a Firth junior In Education.
worries over a challenging problem
while studying for an exam1n the SUB. one
of the campus' znost popular study places.
(photo by D. Gilbertson)
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