I only hope I've used up this months adrenaline reserves. If tomorrow is as bad as yesterday - and especially last night - was, I don't know if I'll make it to the exam on Thursday or just collapse in a corner somewhere.
Oh how i wish we could use up all our available adrenaline and have some sweet relief for a while, like we can with histamine! (Hot water= survival of poison ivy rash.)
I never got too stressed about exams. Always had a fatalistic attitude: time marches forward, it will become part of the past, and life will go on. Come to think of it, the same mindset was very handy in childbirth!
Best advice i can offer is: Lie down and pretend it's over, you're getting your results, and you are wildly happy and relieved. FEEL that emotion. Breathe.
Thing is, rationally, I'm not too far away from the attitude you mentioned (well, add a bit of "i don't want to go through another month of studying this"). It's just that my body doesn't get that. Never had that problem at school, started during university.
And acing it isn't even required, since, ridiculously, we DO get marks on exams (not just fail/pass, that is), but ultimately, nobody gives a damn about them. But... well, yeah, passing would be nice.
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I only hope I've used up this months adrenaline reserves. If tomorrow is as bad as yesterday - and especially last night - was, I don't know if I'll make it to the exam on Thursday or just collapse in a corner somewhere.
I wish I knew why I (p)react this badly to exams.
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I never got too stressed about exams. Always had a fatalistic attitude: time marches forward, it will become part of the past, and life will go on. Come to think of it, the same mindset was very handy in childbirth!
Best advice i can offer is: Lie down and pretend it's over, you're getting your results, and you are wildly happy and relieved. FEEL that emotion. Breathe.
You'll ace it, no question!
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It's just that my body doesn't get that.
Never had that problem at school, started during university.
And acing it isn't even required, since, ridiculously, we DO get marks on exams (not just fail/pass, that is), but ultimately, nobody gives a damn about them. But... well, yeah, passing would be nice.
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