Last September, I made a promise to myself, probably just as many students before me have. Starting a new academic year, a new degree, I decided that it’s going to be different this time, that I can and will be a good student.
Why wouldn’t I? I’m quite clever, aren’t I? And everything was going quite well! I actually thought that I can make it. However, as the new year started, bringing the exams with it – I was proven wrong, very brutally. Being a good student, apparently, is not in me. Perhaps I am destined for the resits?
I often sit and wonder how do others do it? How do they manage to pass everything with good grades and not even break a sweat? Are they smarter than me? Is there something wrong with me? It surely cannot be this hard, so why the hell do I keep failing exam after exam? I mean, I know I have a lot on my mind with my job and personal issues (we all have them, right?) but I should be capable of doing this too! After all, I am quite a clever girl.
I know, I could blame the University! Or the lecturers! Or the system, which is actually quite unique, compared to other higher education facilities. We don’t get an actual examination period, do we? We just do our finals when the subject is over, sometimes after only a few weeks and sometimes even before some of the other subjects have started! That would be very alluring – blaming everything and everyone but me.
Let’s face it though - I did this to myself. Here I am, writing about how I wanted to be better at Uni, get high grades, be a good student, complaining about already failing a few exams, searching for some higher reasons, when – in fact – the answer is right in front of me. Here I am writing all of this, instead of revising for my exams. But this has to be done as well! And the laundry, the vacuuming, cleaning up my place!
Oh well, maybe I should bake something. Everybody loves desserts. Hopefully lecturers do too!
Please note: bribing your lecturers with desserts is highly inappropriate and has never really worked before.
