Not so quick on the uptake...

[searchsoleil]

Finished The Tipping Point yesterday. My God, it was probably the most engrossing read I've had in a while. Seriously, I'm no businesswoman or entrepreneur, but I am a sociology/psychology/history fangirl and this book just took all of those things and wrapped it up in one big ball of AWESOME.

In the meantime, I'd like to bring attention to a theory that every student can relate to. I've always called it the Finals Phenomenon and it states:

At the same time that a high school or college student is preparing for exams, there will invariably be an upswing of interesting things to do that have absolutely nothing to do with studying. This is a phenomenon that is fed by both internal and external factors.

1. Midterms and finals are so stressful that anything even remotely interesting to the student will seem far more interesting during exam seasons than during ordinary time.
2. Midterm and final seasons also happen to fall at incredibly busy times of year. Midterms take place in the Christmas rush/after-rush . Finals take place as the summer rush gets its start.

And to make matters worse for myself, apparently after about a month of agonizing inactivity, my FList suddenly picked up starting last week and now I am falling further and further behind in my recs.

Honestly, could people have suddenly started asking about long, chaptered fics one week from now instead of today? I now have a 62-chapter fic staring me in the face and the pull is so strong, but I have to screw up whatever self-control I can muster and wait until Thursday to start on it so that I'm not thinking HOMG, what's going to happen to Harry next? when I'm attempting to not fail my other finals (I failed physics, I cannot even wrap my head around how bad it was).

*le sigh* I'm off to go bookmark stuff in an emergency "Do Not Open Until After Finals" folder.

Comments

[mellifer.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I understand how you feel. I finished a book of my own today. (For some reason that makes me feel like I just had a baby o_o) It was pretty good and full of what I like. =D Even though I was kind of embarrassed of the main character at times. I definitely literally buried my head under my blanket for a lot of the parts.

Anyway...I'm sure your physics wasn't that bad. ^^;; I'm really worried about Pre-Calc tomorrow. The probability of me totally forgetting what's going on is highly probable.

x_x

I can't wait until this whole mess is over.

[search-soleil.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've had books like that.

Oh no. Physics was really, really horrible. I filled in random answers for over half of the test because he told us to guess if we didn't know the answer. Seriously, I am not exaggerating. You can ask Phue about how bad it was, it was that bad.

As a result, I'm not so worried about Math, though I'm definitely going to be studying like a maniac for the next few days.

[mellifer.livejournal.com]

Ah, sounds painful/horrific. I took math today and surprisingly it wasn't really that bad. I mean, there was some stuff I didn't remember, but it wasn't horrible. I don't think I failed...I think. o_o But yeah, it should be fine.

I'm not really worried about history, actually. But eh. We shall find out tomorrow, I suppose. =D