Well, another lengthy snowy spring semester is almost nearing completion at Missouri S&T, as we see the trees sprouting new leaves and the grass growing greener by the day. The spring is bringing with it the bright and beautiful tulips, the sweet smell of warm grass and of course- A MYRIAD OF ASSIGNMENTS AND TESTS.
Oh yeah! The ‘torturous test and assignment filled period’ is rearing its ugly head at us again with its deep-crimson eyes and a devilish smile. It’s that time of the semester again when the professors are relentless in doling out assignment after assignment and when they don’t even care if we have an exam that very same day.
Just as I begin to appreciate the warm climate and the sparkling Schuman lake view outside my window, the darkness of the tests and the projects clouds over my head and throws my mood back into that deep dark pit of ‘academic terror’.
Students now begin to realize that they aren’t anymore in a position to ignore the assignments until a few hours before the submission deadline because we have far too many assignments to be completed.
The coffee sales go up as students load themselves up with caffeine, in their quest to stay up through the night. Sometimes, I feel there’s a new Newton’s law in town, that says “the toughness (read: degree of solvability) of each assignments is directly proportional to the duration of the semester completed so far.”
The pressure is building up and each student is dead worried about his grades now. He or she will be thinking about various strategies to better their grades
This is the time when those super-studious individuals who score straight A’s and still say “But I didn’t study at all for that test ..I don’t know how I got so many bad marks” can be yelled back at with guiltless hatred and can be passed the ‘rude finger’ gestures.
I myself am tied down with three assignment submissions on a single day followed by an exam two days later. I thought about writing on a more entertaining topic this week…but my mind is so ‘academicated’ right now that I wasn’t able to write about anything else.
I fail to understand this merciless semester-ending treatment wherein we are all put in ‘pressure pot’ situations and the stress-levels rocket up to the skies.
Do feel free to contact me if you have any bright ideas on ‘how to raise a dead grade’ or any such related material. Your ideas will always be welcome. NOTE: Lame remedies like ‘work hard and you’ll get there’ or ‘don’t worry about the grades…they’re useless’ will not be appreciated, and might earn the ire of the writer of this article.
So, if you happen to bump into an unshaven guy scurrying around campus into the library or the nuclear engineering building, just ignore him and tell yourself that it’s just another guy who has been engulfed in the flames of the end-sem-stress .
Wish I could wish you luck for your exams/tests/assignments/presentations/projects/other ugly terms, but I myself need all the luck I can garner and yes, I am selfish bastar
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