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| Current music: | Lenny Kraviz- Stillness of Heart |
Poster Child for Test Anxiety (Kasey)
"I used to study and study and know the material, but when it came time to take the test, my mind would become a total blank... then I went to Sylvan's Learning Center..." Okay, so we've all seen the commercials on television- my favorite is when the kid gives his mom his report card, with straight A's, for her birthday (quite a cop-out on a present if you ask me) and the tears swell in her eyes as he says, "That's something you have been wanting for a long time..." It's a touching story, really... but as I sit here on the floor surrounded with notecards and pages and pages of statistics notes, I am growing even more bitter with every passing minute and I am debating on giving Sylvan's a call to see if there is anything they can do for me in the next 16 hours... It doesn't matter how much I study, how well I know the material, how many hours of sleep I get the night before-I always choke... I am really getting tired of this crap too... I'm taking a break from studying (it has been five consecutive hours, so I thought I deserved it) to vent my frustrations. It absolutely kills me how my friends in this class would come to me to actually HELP them with things they didn't understand and they are the ones who don't have to take the final because they have A's. I'm completely baffled at my inability to properly take a test... I used to feel really smart, however that 3.8 gpa I accumulated during my freshman and sophomore years has slowly diminished to a 3.42 and is depleting even more so as we speak. This time tomorrow, I will be stress free and no longer plagued with 17 hours of classes and 12 hours of work... The semester that every Psychology Major dreads will be complete, and I will coast through the next three semesters right to graduation...
After thought: you know that classes and finals are bad when you are praying that a car will run the red light at the intersection and plow into you leaving you significantly injured enough not to have to take finals, but in tact enough to have an enjoyable summer...
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