My always-ignored advice to anyone studying for exams is that the best thing you can do the night before is get a good night’s sleep. Long study periods long before the previous night should have been used to build up your skills and knowledge. Late-night cramming at the expense of being fresh and having your wits about you in the morning is not really going to help much, if at all. (Heh… long study periods….call me old-fashioned.)
On this very matter, Yvette (one of our regular commenters here) has outdone herself once again with her literary skills! Here is part of her seasonal (as in finals season) poem:
The Night Before Finals
By Yvette Cendes
T’was the night before finals
And all through the dorm
Crazed cramming and panic
Was quite the norm.The students were restless
And none touched their beds
While theorems and formulas
Danced in their heads.With textbook in hand
And a bright pink highlighter
I had settled down
For another all-nighter.Then outside my room
There arose a great clatter,
I raced to the door
To see what was the matter.And who do you think
Appeared before my eyes
But a wizened old Prof
And a bunch of SIs!From his terrible wardrobe
And long, unkept beard
I knew right away
This was gonna be weird.[…]
For the rest you’ll have to go to The Chocolate Fish, her blog.
Enjoy!
-cvj
