Studying

Studying is a funny thing. It brings out the quirkiest, creepiest and most hilarious parts of a person's character. You never really know a person until you go through the stress of exams with them.

You know how when you lose someone you go through 5 stages of grief? Well the same stages can apply for most students during exams.

The first stage is denial. This is, I think, the longest phase of all of them. It starts at the beginning of a semester and leads up to approximately a month or less before the exam. Some stay stuck in this stage even up to the last week before exams. During this phase students talk about how easy the subjects are, miss classes and grumble that their lecturer is way too boring. Their general behaviour is 'Bitch please'.

The second stage is anger. Most of the anger is usually directed towards the lecturer. Students are angry because the lecturer are no good and because they don't give them notes. They cry 'Da fuck is this shit?!' There's also an itsy bitsy pinch of anger towards themselves for having wasted half the year playing cards in quad.

Next is bargaining. This, I think is the most hilarious stage. Students spend this phase in the library, making up impossible time-tables with 36 hour-day slots and flipping a coin to decide which topics they're going leave out. Freddie mercury's meme 'Close enough' would be quite complimentary to this stage.

Depression is next. This is the 'OMG I'm gonna fail' phase. It's when you see students huffing and puffing outside the library on "cigarette breaks" when in reality they're just too depressed to study. You can see people in front of their computer screens writing on facebook about how sad and awful University life is. And others with books open, pens in hand and staring off into nothing.  

The last stage is acceptance. Acceptance that it's too late to do anything. This is where a meme geek (yes someone like me), would place the 'flipping tables' image.  You can see who has reached this stage because they're usually sleeping on their books in the library. Others are sitting in the group area getting told off by the blonde librarian because they're laughing like maniacs. Or making fun of the 'sorr-eh' librarian.

But with studying there's another phase. It's the 'euphoria' stage. All students who finish their exams and are in the 'like a boss' stage. They're so glad it's over that they don't care whether they've passed or failed. They stay in this phase until a new semester starts or results are received. And then it's back to the denial phase once again. This rollercoaster ride continues for the span of time students spend in University. Because although we're supposed to be very intelligent people, we never seem to learn.