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So much time to study/So little time to study.
It's all a matter of perspective.
This exam period I have boatloads of study time. With exams only on the 7th, 14th, and 20th, I should have plenty of time to study. Frankly I think it just gets spread out. Figure this. If you have exams back to back, the time you have between exams is pretty tight and therefore precious. You squeeze as many seconds out of every minute studying until you inevitably run out of time.
When you have lots of time, you figure you can set out a more complete, yet rigorous study plan. You will do X first, then Y, and then to sum everything up, Z. Then you should be set and ready for the exam and everything will from then on is just reviewing.
In that time you figure you can take a break. Then another. Possibly some more. You have lots of time. Then you realize you've only done X and half of Y and time is running out but by now you're getting sick of doing Y for class P. You'd really like to do Z for P but you're stuck on Y and X didn't seem to help at all. You don't want to stop halfway through Y to do Z because X didn't help as much as you thought it would, so you think maybe you should stop Y, forget Z, do X again, then go back to doing Z with Y hoping that this time X helped out more, as much as you thought Z would - if you had finished Y.
You then sit there in F thinking you would have done better at L but you don't want to waste the time getting there because you want to finish Y. But now that you'll do X instead of Y and Z, maybe going to L would be better than staying at F. Although going to L doesn't matter because you can still study P by doing X, Y, & Z all at F - but you'll be distracted by T, Q, U, E, and probably I at F.
Then you get frustrated and still aren't sure to do, as you no longer know what the hell you want to do anymore. Suddenly you realize you wasted even more time just trying to figure out how you wanted to study instead of just studying.
Sometimes it just seems easier to have less time instead of having a plan of attack...
Perhaps I'll just try to finish Y... or maybe go back to X...
It's all a matter of perspective.
This exam period I have boatloads of study time. With exams only on the 7th, 14th, and 20th, I should have plenty of time to study. Frankly I think it just gets spread out. Figure this. If you have exams back to back, the time you have between exams is pretty tight and therefore precious. You squeeze as many seconds out of every minute studying until you inevitably run out of time.
When you have lots of time, you figure you can set out a more complete, yet rigorous study plan. You will do X first, then Y, and then to sum everything up, Z. Then you should be set and ready for the exam and everything will from then on is just reviewing.
In that time you figure you can take a break. Then another. Possibly some more. You have lots of time. Then you realize you've only done X and half of Y and time is running out but by now you're getting sick of doing Y for class P. You'd really like to do Z for P but you're stuck on Y and X didn't seem to help at all. You don't want to stop halfway through Y to do Z because X didn't help as much as you thought it would, so you think maybe you should stop Y, forget Z, do X again, then go back to doing Z with Y hoping that this time X helped out more, as much as you thought Z would - if you had finished Y.
You then sit there in F thinking you would have done better at L but you don't want to waste the time getting there because you want to finish Y. But now that you'll do X instead of Y and Z, maybe going to L would be better than staying at F. Although going to L doesn't matter because you can still study P by doing X, Y, & Z all at F - but you'll be distracted by T, Q, U, E, and probably I at F.
Then you get frustrated and still aren't sure to do, as you no longer know what the hell you want to do anymore. Suddenly you realize you wasted even more time just trying to figure out how you wanted to study instead of just studying.
Sometimes it just seems easier to have less time instead of having a plan of attack...
Perhaps I'll just try to finish Y... or maybe go back to X...
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