Is it possible to over study? When do you reach the point where you can’t hold anymore information? If you are cramming when should you stop on the day of the exam?

All of these were the thoughts I had racing through my mind this morning as I chopped down on the stalest bagel I have ever eaten, if it didn’t have cream cheese on it I think it would have severely scratched my throat. I nearly choked about 3 times while I was trying to eat it and read my history text at the same time. But I thought, no worries I have my trusty coffee with me as well… That was my mind set, until I tried to drink “it”, because it certainly wasn’t coffee, it was some bitter concoction by the devil just to screw me over for buying the Den’s coffee because I was too cheap to want to pay 5 bucks for a Starbucks coffee.

I was beginning to wonder if this cubical on the 4th floor of the library would be mine forever. I had spent more night in that hard uncomfortable wooden chair the last 2 days then I had in my own room. Last night fear struck me as I realized I had physics and history exams within hours of each other. So at 6:30 I planted myself in the library wondering if I was the type to do an all nighter and live to tell tale. I discovered around 1am, I am not that type. So it’s 1am…it’s dark and I realize my campus…not the most well lit of schools. SO I wait for Alex to call…why I thought talking to someone on the walk home was safer I have no idea…
Perhaps the guy in the shadows will stay there because he sees someone will know right away if I am attacked.
I have no real possessions on me unless someone wanted to steal my notebooks…which at that time I would have killed for.
But alas I waited for my cell to ring and then I was on my way back home, I had planned to try and study once more when I got home. But the way my bed was looking at me it took all over 5 mins for me to be safely tucked beneath my blankets.
So 6:30am hits and I am up for some last min studying before my physics exam on the walk there I think I will literally get sick…but I don’t. My teacher is late…what else is new. But today it felt like a slow torture just waiting for him to get there so I could get this exam over with.
And boy did I, I was out in 30 mins, I think I passed I needed a 30 out of 35…I dunno if I did that well, maybe I did if he curves it nicely…
So it’s 9am and I am back in the same chair in the library studying again for my history exam I have at 1230 and then I say until about 1145 when I come to the conclusion I can fit no more info into my brain and studying is over.
It’s 1215 now I am off to see if all this studying will help me any on this exam…
2 major essay’s and 10 one page ID’s one on every chapter of the text book…
Oh dear lord….

welp.. just think, as I sit here typing this.. you're passing your last final.. and by the time you read this, you'll be ready to pass out and sleep the memory of all of this away. I know you did well on this exam, you're one of the smartest people I know and I know you can do anything that you set your mind to.
» ThisCharmingMan on 2006-12-14 01:10:34

You'll find the point of "overstudy" comes, and comes hard.

You won't have any motivation, at all, the words won't stay still, and worst of all, you'll not be done studying and the exam is in five minutes.

If I'm cramming, I refuse to study for the hour before the exam. Unless it's something I know I might forget.
» ikimashokie on 2006-12-15 12:41:02

i'll always be there when anything scares you. or otherwise.
» ThisCharmingMan on 2006-12-18 01:58:26

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