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How To Study for An Exam

1. Get all your notes - this includes PowerPoint's, notebooks, scratch papers, note cards, outlines, etc.
2. Obtain a vast assortment of pens in all colors, hi lighters, pencils that look like pens, markers, and jelly rolls (a must.)
3. Eat dinner so your stomach doesn't growl and pull you away from your intense studies
4. Find a quiet study area in order to fully pull yourself away from all reality and completely focus on the concepts. The following places are appropriate: the dining hall, Rich study lounge, Claflin study lounge, GSU, Stuvi, Stuvi2. The following places are not appropriate: Your bed.
5. Check your e-mail to ensure that you are fully caught up on any updates the professor may have e-mailed last minute
6. Check your facebook to confirm all is right with the world so you can fully immerse yourself in the task ahead of you
7. Check your other e-mail to affirm your dog has not died, grandma is alive, parents are still kickin' it, siblings are not in the hospital...
8. Sit in your corner with your table and your chair and your outlet. This is isolation mode.
9. Wish death upon the Beyonce wanna-be who is singing in the room next to you.
10. Blog. You have to do something for pleasure before you can disappear from reality.
11. Make awkward eye contact with the girl across the room
12. Re-check facebook - chat with your friend from class about how ridiculous this exam is, how the professor wants us all to die, and how the concepts are so obscure they probably aren't even approved by the board
13. Do a quick cam-co run for water and hummus/carrots - it's going to be a long night so you have to make sure we're prepared for this.
14. Write an e-mail to mom about how you're working so hard in college and how everything is so stressful and how you're so tired from the long weekend of doing nothing but studying and building your resume
15. Download all the PowerPoint's from the lectures. Name them all. Put them in alphabetical order in your folders. Realize that's completely retarded and put them in chronological order.
16. Really though, the suffering hyena next door just needs to choke already. This is really interrupting your studies.
17. Do a quick bathroom run, just to make sure there is absolutely no reason you have to get up for the next three hours. Because starting now it is complete and utter immersion in these studies.
18. Text the boyfriend to ask if it's okay if you snipe the opera singer. He asks if she's hot.
19. Get up and slyly poke your head around the corner.
20. Confirm she is, in fact, a beast.
21. Check the school e-mail. Two new ones!? ..okay one is from the Catholic Center and one is from...a professor! But a different one...and about something completely irrelevant. But thank God you checked it. Those could have been important.
22. Make eye contact with the girl again. Confirm she is, in fact, checking you out.
23. Open your notebook.
24. Zone out thinking about how different this study lounge looked last year
25. Take your shoes off. Comfort is a must.
26. Re arrange all your pictures in iPhoto so they are chronological. You've been meaning to do this for a while.
27.Talk to the roommate on Facebook chat for a bit to be sure all is okay with the room and there are no mice or leaks or drunks
28. Check your e-mail
29. Put your hair in a pony tail.
30. Take it back down. Ponytails can cause headaches and therefor cause distractions. Which absolutely positively cannot happen right now.
31. Double check the correct spelling of Hyena.
32. Tune into the group's conversation next to you - they're studying for the same exam
33. Update your planner
34. Check your other e-mail
35. Notice the parrot stopped squwaking
36. Oh, nope, there she goes again.
37. Relocate to the next room over. MUCH better.
38. Re-sign in to the wireless internet
39. Check facebook and both e-mails
40. As 1 am rolls around, buckle down, close your computer, and study from your handwritten notes until 3 am
41. Wake up at 7 and study for 3 hours until your seating time
42. Take the exam then completely crash because you stayed up all night and got up at the crack of dawn to study.

lovelovelove,
me

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