Procrastination

Procrastination - n. the art of keeping up with yesterday

Or in my case, keeping up with the last several months worth of yesterdays. It's bound to happen when you only attend every second lecture on your timetable. There's a philosophy exam tomorrow that I'm not nearly prepared for. All I have to do is remember a few catch phrases and important names now and then go and write four essays in two hours tomorrow. How hard could it possibly be?

Then there's the multiple choice psychology exam. The strategy for that: if I don't know the answer, I'll be guessing it's 'c'. No point in varying the guesses because statistically, they're all equally likle to be (in)correct. I haven't really put a hell of a lot of effort into studying for this either.

So what have I been doing while everybody else is studying and panicking? Watching anime, listening to music and playing Puzzle Bubble. Some may call it procrastination. I disagree with this because procrastination would require me to have an intent to study at some stage. Some call it laziness and others call it academic apathy. I prefer to call it 'psychological preparation'. I don't believe that people perform at their best when under pressure so I'm taking the bohemian approach. So what if I don't know the answers? Everybody else will be so panicked and stressed they won't remember either. And on top of that, I'll have the advantage of being awake because I haven't been sleep deprived by the aforementioned stress and panic. Let's face it, short of some freak somnambulant coincidence, there is no way anybody is going to write essays in their sleep.

Welcome to Alan's school of exam preparation. Please leave your textbooks at the door.