Examination Blues

As I sit down trying to study for my upcoming exams, I wonder what could possibly go wrong while I write these exams, apart from failing. I understand its implications but then procrastinating to study is sure way of making it happen, which of course, I cannot let happen for obvious reasons like it makes the mark-sheet look bad when you're applying a postgrad course.

Apart form the 'dreaded' Monday blues, I would say that Exam Blues are the next worst thing for everyone, I would think. Testing of our knowledge of what we have learnt a cramped, short semester of 3.5 months. Another thing while we would have to look into is that of internships for the following month. How much can we possibly do. :/ - The joys the following month shall bring me.

Exams may be dreaded but once its over, we wouldn't have to bother until the results come out and crossing our fingers to ensure that our numbers would be there. Which I hope would happen, considering what I am doing at this very moment instead of studying for the exams the following week. This reminds me of Willy from Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller - wherein he asks Bernard to let Biff copy his answers during the state exam. 'Course cheating is bad. Not that I should do it, 'cos there's this teacher who does the rounds across the room and there's possibly no one I could copy from simply because you cannot be sure what they have studied. As I take Literature as one of my majors, I may know the answer to the question on Lord Alfred Tennyson's The Second Coming more better and would be sure of writing a full fledged and thorough analysis along with the necessary cross references to the other literary texts that I have studied than writing an answer on let's say I.A. Richards' critical essay Principles of Literary Criticism, which the other person who is sitting in front of me would know better than Tennyson's Second Coming.

You can never go wrong in Literature - that's what I love about Literature - no possibility of being wrong. Of course, this can only happen if you are reading the prescribed texts and the non-prescribed texts of your own accord and going to the library to get references for your answers, making it more 'fuller'.

But anyways, exams are exams, and one can't possibly avoid them in any possible way, unless you wriggle yourself out because of lack of attendance. But that's just temporary. October is waiting for you; it's calling you. ;)

I'll have to trudge myself to go study Computers, which unfortunately is my first exam. :|