Journal #24

How to prepare for finals? Oh, that's easy. Study until your eyes fall out. Literally. The ONLY way to completely prepare for finals is to study everything hardcore. It also depends on exactly what grade you are expecting. If you already have an A in the class, chances are you could do little to no work and still manage a good grade in the class at the end. So, if you don't want to get a perfect, study less and chill more, because you can still get a fair grade. Now, if you don't do well in the class, finals can become our redemption. If you do good on the final, you could very possibly pull a better grade in the class in the end. So the best thing to do, overall, to bring a bad grade up, is work and study and practice and go into complete solitary until you are compleatley and utterly POSITIVE that you know the study guide backwards and forwards, and you could recite it like monks recite the bible. Yes, my friends, it's that easy. No friends, no movies, no nothing until you know your stuff. The few days you become a recluse to study your brain off will prove beneficial in the end. All your friends at school will be sweating it and staying up late every night because they decided not to study hardcore. But you will be breathing easy, knowing that you are totally going to ace the test because it's burnt into the hard drive of your brain like your I-pods library is on your  lap-top. Another little thing you should do in your solitary studying is DON'T forget to take breaks. That means you have to eat and walk around once in a while so your limbs don't go numb and you collapse on the floor like a dead seal. Make sure your blood is still flowing, and check it regularly. Also, a good thing to do during break is maybe go around and chat with your family a bit. Or go outside and throw a basketball around. Or take your I-pod doc into your sisters room (while she's studying) and have a dance party. When she kicks you out of her room, that's probably a good notification that you should go back to your room and subject yourself to death by studying. So, to conclude: study. Just study really hard for a few days and in between tests. If you study and take dance party breaks every couple of hours, you'll be fine. And remember: everything you are studying is stuff your ALREADY know, so think of it as a sort of review.