Crunch Period

How do you know when its the crunch time of the year? When you walk back to RVR, and whichever corner of the first floor you walk to, you see the 'tiongs' (as we usually call them) with all their cardboards, pen knives, wires and circuit boards, rushing through what I think is their electrical engineering assignments.

Just finished my final universe test today. The chapters of the second half of the semester are so much tougher. I practically didn't understand most of the things I was studying, as compared to the first half of the semester. In the end, I just went to test with the 'ready to franctically flip my notes' mentally, and thats exactly what I did. To be honest, the test didn't turn out as bad as I thought, although overall I was playing my usual 'make educate guess' game.

There is something which I realised from this test though. I have tonned down my expectations abit after much thinking in the last few days, and as compared to the first test, I was just planning to tide this one through, and hopefully just obtain a pass. I guess this mentality was also set because I practically gave up after not understanding everything I studied. So as I was doing the paper, somehow or rather, I was feeling relieved that I more or less knew how to do half of the paper, and did not feel so stressed anymore. So I just went on to relaxingly complete the rest of my paper.

After the test, I came out and thought to myself, you know, this was the kind of mentality which I had during my poly days. No stress, just do what you can, and let nature take its course. I never pressured myself, and I guess that is why I enjoyed my poly days so so much. As compared to now, I keep worrying about grades, after I upped my expectations after last semester. As much as it may seem more 'slacking', I so want to go back to have that old and relaxing mentality.