Final exams are just right around the corner, which means a lot of long nights ahead. While college students tend to do their share of procrastination and time wasting during any test period, finals are a time when all students have several tests (or papers) crammed into a very short period of time. Students hate tests, and they hate papers. You will rarely find a student who enjoys taking a test. We should be thrilled to prove what we know and what we have learned during our class sessions, right? Although this would be great in a perfect world, it is definitely not the case. College students dread exams and more so they dread the hours of studying they have to put in to do well on the exams. Many college students waste time during the year (see my previous blog on wasting time in the classroom) and have to catch up and learn all of the information the night (or if they are really on top of things, two or three nights) before the test. When you combine this with multiple tests in a day or in a short period of days, there is simply not enough time to learn a whole semester’s worth of wasted class time.
This article from the Battalion addresses this and comments on the problem that arises in procrastination and wasted time here in the College Station and Bryan area. Energy drinks and late nights. We try to force so much learning into such a short period of time. We risk and diminish our health by drinking way too much caffeine and getting little to no sleep because we are so apt to avoid the things that we dislike doing. It is a common joke that these are what get students through college. It would be nice to redo college knowing this to be a bad thing and be a good student who did his learning spread out throughout the semester instead of the night before each test. However, I really think that this is one of the important lessons that college teaches you, and it is important to go through process of learning this so that we can apply good habits to our lives.
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