Keeping one's head in the game at the end of the term

[hygebeorht]

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At this time in the year, those of us in school are wrapping up or have just wrapped up another term. I'm finding it hard to keep my head in the game, but this has always been a problem for me as finals near.

I usually rely on asking my nearest and dearest to help me with my willpower as the end nears. Do any of you have strategies you use to keep you focused as you run out of steam?

If so please share...

 

[EngrSC]

It is so easy to slack off and not care ... I just remind myself that I will be oober mad if I stop caring, do poorly on the final, and get a lower grade than I worked for during the first 3/4 of the semester. I can get through it if I keep thinking that way 🙂

 

[Emiloo4]

Feeling this way as I head into my last finals week of first year. It's sort of similar to those of you just needing to pass pre reqs bc all I care about doing is passing
My fiancé keeps saying "just think that you'll get to see me when it's over" and that only makes me less patient and more lazy 😳.

 

[devyn]

Knowing that if I don't pass I don't make it to 3rd year..... I don't care what the grade is I just need to fecking pass.....

that is my motivation at this point

 

[Coquette22]

I keep a countdown on my whiteboard calendar. "x finals done, x more to go". I take it one day at a time. I don't study every waking hour, if I want to take an hour or two off to watch a movie, I do. And what devyn said.

 

[LetItSnow]

I don't try to keep my head in it.

 

[dyachei]

I don't try to keep my head in it.

you just try to keep it above water😉

 

[LetItSnow]

you just try to keep it above water😉

Yup. I grab a breath once in a while and try not to sink.

 

[Minnerbelle]

Who cares! You're going to vet school.

 

[BlackDog17]

Who cares! You're going to vet school.

Not if you fail your last pre-reqs!

 

[Emiloo4]

Who cares! You're going to vet school.

👍
And there you'll learn to care even less! 😀

 

[SocialStigma]

Our exams are worth 65-70% of our final grade so it's quite easy to fail or do poorly even if you go into the exams with a high average. That's my major driving force, knowing that I'll be so disappointed in myself if I went in a good mark and then dropped by 20%. And for some of the exams, it takes a significant amount of effort just to even pass the exam. And there's no way I want to rewrite an exam.

My SO also pushed to keep going when I went through those "I'm so tired, I just want to sleep, I can't study anymore" moments.

 

[shortnsweet]

A glass...(or bottle)...of wine tends to help me 😉


But really...taking a night off does wonders for my brain. I'm not one who can sit and study for 12 hours a day or pull all nighters. Somehow managed to pass my 100% cumulative year exams too. Like Socialstigma said....the thought of resitting was just too depressing.

 

[jmo1012]

http://vetschoolparadise.tumblr.com/post/49688917297/the-cycle-of-studying-for-finals

 

[nyanko]

i don't.

 

[hygebeorht]

All good advice. Minnerbelle, I did fine in my last prereq (it's a lab so we get final grades in that earlier than most classes - our finals are next week) so yeah I'm good to go as far as vet school is concerned 🙂

But I do want to get the degree I've been working on, and if I can't rally and push through the next two weeks of studying I won't get the degree. 🙁

Those studying gifs are hilarious btw

 

[CanHardlyWait]

👍
And there you'll learn to care even less! 😀

A truer statement has never been spoken.

As for advice, well, I'm on SDN with less than 2 hours until a neurobio exam that I have barley studied for. I think we all know where I stand on keeping my head in the game at the end of the semester.
Honestly, I know I'm like this, so I try to do really well in the beginning of the semester to cushion my slacker ways at the end-especially in spring semesters, when my end of semester slacking is in it's most glorious form. That is probably not the best advice, but it is the truth.

 

[that redhead]

http://vetschoolparadise.tumblr.com/post/49688917297/the-cycle-of-studying-for-finals

Bahahaa.

To answer the original question, I have a similar strategy as Coquette. I make a list that I cross off one by one, which helps me take one step at a time. I do my best with studying but sometimes I just don't bother trying. It's an even bigger waste of time to pretend like I'm studying when I'm actually not absorbing anything than to do something non-studying but still productive in some way. I find that at least when I sit down to study I can get something accomplished.

 

[Emiloo4]

Bahahaa.

To answer the original question, I have a similar strategy as Coquette. I make a list that I cross off one by one, which helps me take one step at a time. I do my best with studying but sometimes I just don't bother trying. It's an even bigger waste of time to pretend like I'm studying when I'm actually not absorbing anything than to do something non-studying but still productive in some way. I find that at least when I sit down to study I can get something accomplished.

This 👍

 

[hygebeorht]

Good point. If I'm going to goof off, I might as well goof off, instead of feeling guilty about procrastinating. Build it into the system.