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.
