Why you might want to reconsider being in a study group with me
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- While I have qualities that may make me an excellent, pastry-bearing study groupmate (see-- tmblr.co/ZmxKTyE-_vj7), I have my less than graceful, more snitty governess taskmaster moments as well. Sometimes, I think I'm the lovechild of Dwight Schrute and Angela Kinsey.
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- Study Groupmate 1: I studied for seven hours last night, but I'm still so worried!
- Study Groupmate 2: Well, okay, tell me all the steps involved in thyroxine and triiodothyronine release.
- Study Groupmate 1: No! I don't know that yet! Hehehe
- Study Groupmate 2: Oh, come on, you had this down yesterday.
- Study Groupmate 1: But I've forgotten it now!
- Study Groupmate 2: Come on, try.
- Study Groupmate 1: No! I really don't know!
- Me: Then you should be worried.
- Study Groupmate 3: *gives me a knowing, giggly, "oh no you didn't, bitch" look*
- Me: I mean, the prof was pretty clear that there's a good chance that it was going to be an essay question, and we went over this a lot of times in study group so I mean...
- Study Groupmate 1: No! Don't tell me that! I need to get an A!
- Me: I mean, I'm just saying-- if you don't know that yet, then I don't know what you do know.
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- Study Groupmate 1: I'm so scared. I studied for seven hours last night, but I didn't know a lot of things on the exam! How many hours did you study after study group, Dino?
- Me: Zero?
- Study Groupmate 1: Really?
- Me: Not sleeping probably didn't help you. Sleep helps your brain encode stuff. You need to do other mental activities and give that part of your brain some rest too. I mean, at some point, things just aren't going to stick. You would've probably been better off sleeping.
- Study Groupmate 1: You probably study a lot every day, huh?
- Me: I just listen really well in lecture.
- Study Groupmate 1: Photographic memory!
- Me: Not really. I'm and auditory learner, and I try to explain things to myself and write my notes in my own words so I understand things rather than just memorize them. It makes the memory more long-term. It's actually nice that he asked questions in this exam that demanded a bit more integration. That's why I always ask you guys to explain your answers when we go over them because we should really know the whys and not just the whats.
- Study Groupmate 1: Oh my god, I'm probably going to get a B in that exam. At best.
- Me: Welp, the secret to life is low expectations.
- Study Groupmate 2: You're not going to get a B. If you do, we'll boycott the next exam!
- Me: I mean, I love you guys and all, but I'm taking that exam.
- Study Groupmate 2: Hahahaha! Dino's all, "screw you guys!"
- Me: I mean, really, what's going to happen if we boycott the exam other than get our grades screwed?
- Study Groupmate 2: True.
- Me: Just write a strongly-worded letter.
- Study Groupmate 2: Yes. That's what we'll do.
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- Study groupmate 1 then goes around asking people how many hours they studied before the exam and/or every day, which irritated me because one, she's being really weird and probably inappropriate to these people. Two, referencing how many hours people study for your own study approach is pretty useless since people have different speeds and capacities?
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- Me: WELP, it's good that you all look worried because we got lazy this time around. I mean, yesterday, we just weren't focused (Study Groupmate 1 had to attend something [which I found out she could've attended some day and time else] and we all got dragged along) so we need to know what we need to do next time.
- My time was wasted (I would've been fine-ish attending SG1's thing, had it not been a last minute, important-schedule-wrecking event), I'm sleep-deprived (and hate myself for just getting 5 hours of sleep before an exam because I just absolutely had to do a marathon of Craig Ferguson interviews and UMVC3 Online Warrior episodes on Youtube -____-) and I just found out that I possibly have a gravely low RBC count. YOU GUYS, even Lady Diana's gracefulness probably didn't have 100% uptime, okay!
Posted February 1, 2012 at 11:21pm in random life school when you mix geek and nerd you get gerd which is a disease and it makes you puke like hell arguments with myselves
