December 10, 2007

One thing that I'm finding here at Kellogg is that there is no such thing as cramming, in the undergraduate terms anyway. I guess when you have 1200 overachievers pooled into one, the only sensible thing to do during exam time is to follow the herd, because you know everyone else is likely to be as concerned about their exam performances you are, and is likely to know what they are doing, as you'd hope you do. As the herd starts studying one week before the exam, that's what I'm finding myself doing.. and guess what, it equates to a lot less stress prior to the actual exam day, and amazingly standard amounts of sleep. Compare that to the 24-hour-straight studying we used to do in undergrad one (or even one half) day before the exam. Hah.

Note, however, that I didn't lay any predictions about my actual performance on the exam; for all I know all this extra sleep and rest/fun time I have during this study period might lead to my ending up at the bottom half of the class. After all, everyone here was in the top echelons of his/her class in undergrad - that's how you get into Kellogg - so it's a given that some of us have got to end up being below average here for the average to happen. Ah well. At least I'm getting plenty of sleep, and the winter break is now 3.5 days away.

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