Finals Week aka Sleepless Nights & Adderall addiction

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It's about that time again gaf. Final tests, papers and presentations.
Are you ready?


..I'm not. I have a 45 minute presentation tomorrow and exams everyday until friday.
Wish me luck.
 
I never pulled an all nighter in undegrad. I probably would have failed my exams if that was necessary. Study early and often fools.

Computer Engineer here.
 
8 finals :( and i am reminded that our curriculum is considered generally easier than medicine(pharmacy), man i dunno how those guys pull it off.
 
We're just wrapping up finals here. Tomorrow is the last day of exams, including my last one. Can't wait to finally finish, I still have a presentation due next week that's not nearly as stressful or time-consuming as preparing for exams.
 
I wrote my final and I'm fucking losing it waiting for my teacher to e-mail me my mark. I keep checking my inbox and I can't focus on anything else. I feel queasy. fuuuuck
 
CliqWriter said:
Summer school sounds like hell on earth. Unless its only 3 credits or something.
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Six credits. I took a light load this school year because I had to work full-time, so I had to do some summer stuff to help balance it.

ShroudOfFate said:
I only have one "true" final this semester. All my other classes end early too. I really lucked out I guess.
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I have two, and only on one day, which is nice. Granted, they're for my most difficult classes, but whatever gets it over with quickest.
 
Finals week for me is two weeks from now. I have three finals/presentations all on the same day, but I think I prefer this after having finals stretched out over the whole week in past semesters. Last final week ever for me, yay!
 
ConradCervantes said:
Six credits. I took a light load this school year because I had to work full-time, so I had to do some summer stuff to help balance it.



I have two, and only on one day, which is nice. Granted, they're for my most difficult classes, but whatever gets it over with quickest.
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Yea, I have one today in 3 hours and another one tomorrow at noon. I like that it will be mostly over with, but I'm just worried I don't have enough time to study. Usually the amount of time wouldn't be a problem, but this course and proff are particularly bad. Not necessarily hard, but lets just say that the proff has never been very clear on expectations so most of the class was destroyed by the midterm. He is inconsistent at best. I do have one more final on the 29th, but I got a summer internship so my last day of work for my current job is this Friday. I'll have the entire weekend off to study for that one, and it's a test that I could walk into, write my name on the paper and walk out of without worrying about passing the course.

For my final today, the class requires a cumulative midterm + final grade of 50%+ to pass, (plus an overall mark including the assignments >50) so I could get 26% and still end up with an easy pass.

I took a 5 course semester (computer science) while working 20 hours a week. Never again.
 
2 papers due next wednesday, 1 half done and the other not started yet. Thankfully I really have nothing else to do for the rest of my classes until then, so I've got a lot of time to get that shit done before then. Won't be pretty though. Honestly if I could just get to finals week with my sanity intact I'll do fine. Cramming, study schedules, I can deal with that. Papers which requires extensive research, interpretation, actual writing, proofreading, and revision after revision, especially over the course of a semester when you can't take a day off without feeling like shit for not working on it, THAT bugs me. When your free time after class is no longer your own, especially in my last semester where just about all academic motivation is shot, it really begins to grate on you after a while. I'm damn glad I chose to work at least a year between graduation and med school, because there's no way I'm mentally ready for med school yet. Just give me a 9-5 job for a while where I can clock in, do my work, and go home and just let go for a while.

Of course 15 credits and holding down a part time job at 10 hours a week kinda cut into that as well.
 
I've got finals week after next.

Shouldn't be too bad, most of my classes are gen ed. I've got a handful of papers to write, though.
 
Our school has finals week this week, in fact I have my second final in twenty minutes. Three more and then I'm home free (to work) on Friday

Dunno how you guys pull all nighters, after a certain amount of time my brain just refuses to take in any more information
 
Pulled a successful all-nighter last night full of Absalom, Absalom! and developing a paper/presentation relating urban homesteading to anarchy...Now for a power nap, and a Spanish oral exam in exactly one hour!
 
In the middle of exam season 3 down, 2 to go with them being tomorrow and Thursday. Moderately prepared for the Thursday exam but nervous about Marketing tomorrow, can't seem to focus at all. Having a 3 week exam period is killing me :( (in the last week now).
 
I try not to do all-nighters. I'll do worse having studied the material with no sleep than not going over the material and winging it with full alertness, and since I don't drink caffeine either (it's bad in general, I'm very sensitive to it, and it aggravates my anxiety problems), I can't rely on that crutch either.

But the next 3 weeks are going to be gruesome anyway. Thermo final, Probability final, Bioprocess Engineering midterm and final (but if I ace the midterm I don't have to take the final) + the final project, and lab final, reports, and an organic chemistry 2 final.

Sucks.

Sometimes I think that I might have the passion and aptitude to go to medical school but fuck me chemical engineering is bad enough I don't think I could take 4-8 more years of this kind of pressure just finish my education.

Before college I didn't have mental health problems, now I have chronic anxiety that needs medication and shit just for me to get through my exams without losing my head.
 
I've only got one final, but it's my last class before leaving my community college so I have to make sure I don't fuck up and slide.
 
What the hell is finals week? Why is it so compressed? At my school final exams are scheduled during an entire month. I had one exam April 12th, I have one tomorrow, and my last one April 29th.
 
Test tomorrow, two next week, two Design projects (plus reports and presentations) due the week after, and then 4 actual finals the week after. I can't believe they do this crap in people's last semester...
 
I really need to get back to studying for my test tomorrow but every time I pick up my notes I get so bored. I don't want to read about geography anymore.
 
CliqWriter said:
I've actually only used it once and I stayed up and focused on my work so long I almost missed class trying to perfect my paper.
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This sums up every term paper I've ever written.

I once wrote a 2-page paper on why I dislike research papers for my Final which was supposed to be an 8-page research paper...

My professor gave me a 95 because it was perfect and I owe it to the adderall
 
Just wrote my final paper for my art of film class. Talked about the cinematic elements of Bioshock Infinite. Got a 2500 word essay on rising food prices due in my english class in like 3 weeks. Sigh. Not looking forward to that.
 
CliqWriter said:
It's about that time again gaf. Final tests, papers and presentations.
Are you ready?


..I'm not. I have a 45 minute presentation tomorrow and exams everyday until friday.
Wish me luck.
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I was sort of ready I guess... my finals are over.

I pretty much gave up the last 2 days, played video games. Test seemed to go fine.

also I'm always on 'adderall' (dexedrine actually but hey)
 
Hilarious how my semester only ends at June 28 ... and my Graduation Thesis is just starting to get crazy now


And you north hemiphere people is in the final week already =P

It feels like a time hole
 
Platy said:
Hilarious how my semester only ends at June 28 ... and my Graduation Thesis is just starting to get crazy now


And you north hemiphere people is in the final week already =P

It feels like a time hole
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When does your school year start?
 
CliqWriter said:
It's about that time again gaf. Final tests, papers and presentations.
Are you ready?


..I'm not. I have a 45 minute presentation tomorrow and exams everyday until friday.
Wish me luck.
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What could possibly be so important that it takes 45 minutes to report. And your class must have 5 people in it else it would take a whole semester for everyone to present.
 
MThanded said:
I never pulled an all nighter in undegrad. I probably would have failed my exams if that was necessary. Study early and often fools.
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Truer words were never spoken. It's a shame I didn't learn this until my last semester.

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Glad I don't have to go through this anymore, graduated in December.
 
Uggh, Got a final in Philosophy next Tuesday, a final in Music Appreciation that's an hour long listening final (wtf), and a final in Calculus with Analytical Geometry. Yay.
 
4/5, last exam tomorrow

these last three weeks have been fucking hell. thank god it's over tomorrow.

i just wanna play some games man
 
I only had 2 online exams for finals this semester, both which were pretty easy, and I'm in my last semester of Nursing school. It's weird how Nursing school has gotten easier for the most part as I've progressed in the program... most majors have the hardest classes at the end generally I feel. Can't complain though, glad to almost be done!
 
Wynnebeck said:
Uggh, Got a final in Philosophy next Tuesday, a final in Music Appreciation that's an hour long listening final (wtf), and a final in Calculus with Analytical Geometry. Yay.
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I had a final once that consisted of listening to and analyzing baroque music. I have no idea how I got through that. I really regret taking that class.
 
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