In the last week

The conference was on Saturday, so most of last week - once i'd finished the final edits to the quant project - was spend finishing my paper and making slides and stuff. I know it isn't the purpose of this blog to say so, but i think the paper went ok.

Since then: revision all the way. So far i've finished all the exam related-reading (yeah, if i'd left time i could've done more, but there is an optimum amount for everything and i'm not that far from it) and summarised one topic. Now time for all the weird little revision aids and rituals to come into play.


Weird revision aids part 1:

• Using the same (cartridge) pen for the whole semester, in the hope that it will remember something useful. As it were.
• Sucking a boiled sweet while revising, then taking a supply of them into the exam. (may have to be cough sweets, haven't got round to getting anything else)
• Using a scented pen to underline bits of revision notes, then taking that into the exam to write a mindmap.
• Painting my nails before going over the notes for the last time, and wearing the same polish into the exam - the sight of my purple-nailed hands holding the same pen (see above) may jog some memory somewhere.

There may be more, as i get more frenetic and desperate between now and Friday. (my last politics exam EVER!!!!!) You may think these strategies are mad. If i was just doing that, without the work, i'd agree. But face it, i've become slightly less crap about exams since i started being systematic about things like this, so where's the harm?