The Accounting Exam Ritual, all over again.
10:17 AM
July 10, 2008
The Week Before:
Of course it begins at least a week before, when almost every waking moment you can spare is used to study the materials for the exam. You experience the perverse thrill of the mounting stress and pressure as you realize that you're nearing the exam and still have more materials than you can make sense of in the time left.
The Night Before:
Cram attacks and panic attacks. You start pulling out exercises you no longer have time to go through and cram everything you can at double the speed you previously employed. Warning: this may include all sorts of stress symptoms, like crying, vomiting, sleeplessness, nightmares, and the like.
The Exam:
Chorus of Whispered Swear words. Feel free to use them as much as you like. Everyone will understand. You thought you were at least a bit prepared, but in truth nothing can prepare you for whatever comes. Nothing. Pray for multiple time extensions, and be very very very careful. Dyslexia is unforgivable. Curse. Pray.
After the Exam - Depressed Day:
Forget that you missed breakfast and lunch to you six hour exam. All you need is sleep right now. And to forget the onslaught that just occurred. Head home in shame, and flop onto bed to get back a week's worth of sleep. Wake up and mope around with a dark black aura around you, and glare at anyone who mentions or asks you about your exam. If your brain is too depressed for sleep, do a low-brainpower activity like watching TV, listening to music, anything to ease the pain.
After the Exam - Moping Morning:
Still tired from the exam, but you need to head to school anyway. Find other classmates and go abuse the exam together. When you see the teacher, beg for bonuses. After this, try to erase the memory from your brain as much as possible. Any remembrance triggers extreme pain and anxiety. Be glad it's over for now.
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Crazy accounting exam. T_T I thought I was prepared, but I wasn't. Plus I got the bonus of several mental blocks. Perfect. So anyway, immediately after the exam, I headed home and started moping about, as previously mentioned. My depressed day, however, consisted of very productive activities, if I do say so myself. In fact, everyone at home was happily commenting "Okay ka pala madepress". -_-
Why? For one weird thing, after wallowing in bed for a while, out of nowhere, I decided to bake. I pulled out some of my mom's recipe books and even picked a pie with dough! After finishing the slightly burnt-slightly undercooked masterpiece, I watched one jdorama episode and one anime episode (Kimmy's d. grey-man). Then, I started reading 2 new books (I'm currently reading 7 books), and I loaded more into my cellphone. Then I went of to sulk more and be emo. :p Restless much?
On a side note: sometimes, you just can't help but be emo. XD
The next day was just a food-tripping-moping day. Within the span of one class, I managed to chow down a burger (from Jollibee courtesy of my seatmate), Fita crackers, Nissin Wafers, a cup of instant noodles, and a pack of clover chips. After that, I just went home, ate dinner, then *accidentally* fell asleep. I tried to bake again, but everyone stopped me. ^^;
Anyway, since I mentioned it earlier, the books I'm currently reading are:
Mansfield Park, Virgin Blue, Innkeeper's Song, Wicked, Prince Caspian, Love in the Time of Cholera and the Other Boleyn Girl.
I don't even know why I keep starting books when I don't even get around to finishing them. I read either one of these when I feel like it, or whichever is closest at hand, so I'm not even halfway most of the books. -_- Shame. And the mixed and different writing styles is making it hard for me to read the difficult books, especially when I read them after the easy books.
YEah, yeah... I'm babbling... -__-
And for those of you nonbelievers who think I'm just moping and wailing about accounting just because of false humility, you're wrong! I've been getting a line of seven in accounting for the past couple of years (and I've only been taking up accounting for a few years, so you can imagine what this means). And most of my accounting exams in a subject have failing marks. Last sem, I even stayed up till 3am just to wait for the grades in case I had to take the removals. Thankfully though, accounting isn't my only subject, and this is "officially" the last accounting subject of my course (so says my professor), meaning this is last subject we're taught accounting. The rest is just accounting reviews, auditing and accounting feasib.
But then again, I'm glad that I'm still in school and not out there in the workforce. I guess I can never really make myself regret that I chose to stay in BAA instead of shifting to BA or BE or Econ whenever I think of that. ^^;
come fly ~ gen
Why? For one weird thing, after wallowing in bed for a while, out of nowhere, I decided to bake. I pulled out some of my mom's recipe books and even picked a pie with dough! After finishing the slightly burnt-slightly undercooked masterpiece, I watched one jdorama episode and one anime episode (Kimmy's d. grey-man). Then, I started reading 2 new books (I'm currently reading 7 books), and I loaded more into my cellphone. Then I went of to sulk more and be emo. :p Restless much?
