NTUSU Tribune November 2012

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DO’S
This is obvious, but it has it’s own point here because
it’s very, very important: take a break. Go
someplace nice for dinner, blow bubbles, read a
book. The world won’t end.
Assign yourself a bully: if you’re the type who is
prone to procrastination, have a friend who checks
in on you, bullies you, and reminds you that you
will die a penniless hobo if you don’t buck up.
Plan well, and don’t give up yet: it’s really, really
easy to panic this close to the exams, and decide
that there’s no point even trying. Yes, there is, and
if you try, you can salvage a surprising amount.
Use all the resources you have: your lecture notes,
helpful professors, tutorial facilities provided by
your school, recorded lectures, library resources,
your alarm clock, and supreme panic.
Understand your patterns: it’s common to panic
when you just don’t seem to get anything done, but
don’t waste time trying new methods: if you study
best alone, for example, don’t try group study.
Give yourself something to look forward to. A
winter holiday, a shopping spree. Something to
reinforce you positively, and to motivate you when
you feel the month has been going on forever.
Realise your limits: achieve a balance in your study
schedule. You don’t want to look like the non-cute
version of a very tired panda, sleep deprived and
crazy-eyed. They’re just exams: not reason enough
to induce spontaneous combustion.
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DOn’tS
The Internet can be your friend, and your biggest
enemy. It will destroy you. Youtube will suck you
into its giant vortex of adorable cats and despair.
Fight it, and you will emerge broken, but alive.
Do not, absolutely do not, start a new television
series a month before your exams. Once you
begin, you will only finish to realise that the civilization
has fallen and cyborgs run the world.
Procrastination is evil. It is worse than flesh eating
seamonsters, worse than screaming babies on the
airplane. Purchase a hunting knife and stab yourself
in the eye whenever you procrastinate.
Do not go berserk with the coffee. You want a little
bit of a push to help keep you awake, functional,
and productive. You don’t want a recipe for homicide,
or be bouncing off your exam hall walls.
If you can emerge from the dank cave of exam
time without having gained weight that indicates
you might have swallowed an entire other person,
congratulations. Few are so fortunate.
Don’t go overboard with the blindingly color-coded
timetables that are laughably unrealistic schedules.
You are not going to be able to study that
monstrous chunk of coursework in an hour.
Facebook during examination month is the spawn
of Satan. Do whatever it takes to fight this evil:
deactivate your account, have a friend change your
password, punch a hole through your computer
screen. May the force be with you.
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