Hey everyone! How’ve you all been? Thank you for having time to read this while preparing for your midterms! By the way, I have already had two and other two are on the way, so I’m already halfway through it, yay! I already got my scores and I did pretty well, which makes me really happy. I think, what really helped me is the fact that I have studied for it and was prepared. Now, that might sound a little boring, but the best way to succeed without hoping for any kind of luck is actually studying. It doesn’t have to be that you are staying up all night at Gateway on the day prior to the exam, instead, you better relax, revise and go to bed early. You just want to make sure you don’t ‘overstudy’ because it might have consequences. For example, my friend studied for the exam the whole night because he missed some lectures and had to study everything by himself. The next day after the exam we were discussing answers and his were so much different from mine. He was proving me wrong, being wholeheartedly sure about his knowledge, that at some point I started to think that I really might be wrong. As a result, after reading lecture notes (that I took when he was absent) and figured out that he has actually messed up a couple of things which made him pick wrong answers. Of course, I was sad because of this, but it also was a good example that night is not the best time to study as it is much harder to focus and remember everything. All in all, if it is was possible to study everything in one night, why would a quarter take 10 weeks to last, instead of having all the finals on Wednesday of week 1, for example?
It always feels better to be prepared than trying to catch up with 5 weeks of class at 3 am, right? I also think so! That is why I always tell this to myself when thinking about missing the lecture or a discussion. Again, this is boring, but it is what it is.
I hope you guys will find this both funny and helpful and will apply some of my experience to yourselves! Good luck to all of you! We got this!