FINALS!!!

United States
December 12, 2006 1:34pm CST
Whew finally done with my classes for a whole month. I was NOT prepared this time around and I'm a little apprehensive to see what I got. It's always so hard for me to study for finals. I don't start when I should, I always end up trying to cram. What a mess! Every semester I start out saying, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that, but when it comes to follow-through, I'm sooo lazy. I wonder if i will ever grow out of this or if I will just be destined to be a C student.
24 responses
• United States
12 Dec 06
I got finals tomorrow, but I'm not going to stress it :)
• India
13 Dec 06
well i think u r a confident guy
• India
13 Dec 06
dont worry. just concentrate on your goal and kick the ball
@gnt23tr (1014)
• United States
13 Dec 06
i am done with school since the last years,,no more finals,,i am so happy
• United States
13 Dec 06
I feel your pain. Most of the time I am ok for final exams. I usually get exempted from those. My problem is the finals term papers. I end up writing them two days before they are due. It's a pattern and I can't seem to escape it. I know the topic at the beginning of the semester but I get serious writing block until the pressure is on. That and there are things I'd rather be doing the rest of the year. This year I almost messed up big time because I got very sick this last week. I think that this is probably going to be the worst paper I've ever turned in... but at this point I just don't seem to care anymore.
@emisle (3822)
• Ireland
13 Dec 06
o i know the feeling! i feel no motivation to study whatsoever, and i always end up doing projects close to the deadline and usually printing them out the day before!...i've just always been this way..:)
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
13 Dec 06
first of all good luck to you. Secondly, the vast majority of students that i have taught do so much better than they expect to do and i hear them all saying very similar things that you have just said , in the fullness of time you will learn to be more objective about your performances and then you will see the way to improve effectivly. Maybe you cram because you work better under pressure, i know i do
@vipul20044 (5794)
• India
13 Dec 06
hey dont break a never buddy Just be positive everything will be perfectly allright it happens especially during exams I know you do get the tantrums but when you will be over with it, you will feel as if you are the luckiest man on the planet So dont sweat do what you can at your best level
• United States
13 Dec 06
Hey, bluuyze, congratulations on finishing with finals. I just started mine, I'll have them until tomorrow. I didn't do so well this semester either. NExt sememster I'll be doing better. Good luck!
• United States
13 Dec 06
OH my gosh! I know exactly how you feel,although I'm not done with my finals yet, I will be done thursday afternoon! but I have been such a procrastinator this semester and I've been having to cram for all my exams, I told myself I would start studying 2 weeks ago! and that never happened, I ended up studying this past sunday the week before all my exams! I guess it just doesnt hit you until it gets closer and closer to the time of your finals! ughhh, its almost over for me! glad your all done! enjoy the time off that you get! it will go by fast, it always does!
@vmoore709 (1101)
• United States
13 Dec 06
I just finished mine as well. Just keep telling yourself that you will work on studying more. Don't push yourself too hard. One step at a time. You'll get it.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
13 Dec 06
I have a hard time studying as well because I am not a good reader. I will take excellent notes and attend every lecture, but no matter how much I'll trick myself into thinking that I'll finally read the book that time, I don't. I'm still crossing my fingers for my anatomy lecture grade! I have to retake the lab. :(
• India
13 Dec 06
myself being a student i know how it feels to get c grade but i knw wat can help u now next time when your sem starts just do one thing just try to study once agian wat has been taught to u u dnt have to study any extra things but only those what has been taught to u and u knw u will be surprised when ur exams will come bcoz the majority of ur portion has been done by u.
@madonna143 (1737)
• Philippines
13 Dec 06
Its the same here. I always say to myself at the very start of each semester that I would be more diligent but then I still end up cramming. Its a good thing though that I memorize better when I am pressured and cramming. I'm just a B type of a student, though I would love to get a few more A's. Maybe we just need a little more determination in changing ourselves for the better. Let's try to give it a little more effort! Good luck to you and God Bless!
• United States
13 Dec 06
I know what its like cause i just got done with my finals too, and i already know i failed one of my classes, which is upsetting for me cause i can't graduate in time.
@sanell (2112)
• United States
13 Dec 06
o my god I am so glad I am not in school anymore. I hated finals, I was a terrible test taker I would just get so freaked out that even though I did study for the exam, I would do very poorly just from the psyche of it all. I finally got over it though, I had learned from others that taking a test is not so scary, if you are prepared just take the whole time alotted and go through your answers again...so I started to do that, I took my time and turned out everyone was right, so when I started in Highschool I was looking like just the average student but by my sophomore and junior year, I went above average and onto the deans list. College was even easier but It was harder to study than for highschool finals, because I knew that for college, this was goign to be for my next career in life and i wanted to have above average grades,...
@blueman (16509)
• India
13 Dec 06
any exam and that too finals give me nervous breakdown, at the last moment you remember to study something which yo u have forgotten all these days and this and that. the relief comes when the exam s are over.
• United States
13 Dec 06
Finals suck mine are Friday- Wednesday. i am only worried about the one i have Wednesday.....
@dip_cool (411)
• India
12 Dec 06
well i also face this problem every time i have to study.after every exam i say to my self that next time i will study a lot before hand and get good marks but every time end up studying the last few days befroe exam.i guess if you really want to do well you have to sit down for study forcefully even if you dont like it.this is the only way and you cannot be lazy otherwise it will be the same old story.
@hottamale (116)
• United States
13 Dec 06
I finished mine last week and i am sooooo glad they are over!! I mean, wow, I didn't work too hard on them and hopefully next semester will go better! I don't want to say that i will work hard bc after reading yalls posts I don't want my "laziness to kick in." lol Good luck to you all in school!!!!!!!!!
@Echo123 (155)
• United States
13 Dec 06
I had forgotten how stressful finals are. Now, here I am back in college after 15 years and it is completely kicking me in the rear! On one hand, my grades are better than they ever were when I was an undergrad. I guess over time I have learned to retain more information and I study using different methods. On the other hand, I handle stress a whole lot worse now that I'm not only a student, but a mom. I have one more final to go and my biggest fear is that the A's I have in my classes will take massive hits once my final exams are averaged in.