18th June 2014, Brick Lane, London
As much as I hate to admit to it, being a lady of leisure is starting to make me climb the walls, and sadly not in an exercise related manner.
So I decided that it was time to actually take one of the countless courses that I've already paid for and have planned on completing for ages and ages. This was kicked off with PRINCE2 in order to officially be decent at project management.
In school, I was a big believer in last minute cramming as a studying technique. Sadly, nothing seem to have changed since 2004 when I aced my English exams by reading the six books I should have studied over the last three months, in one night whilst inhaling coffee and then lying my way through the essay questions. Apparently the true meaning of Grapes Of Wrath is that Hollywood is the American Dream. I don't think my teacher had ever read Grapes Of Wrath. Or anything Steinbeck for that matter. She should.
See, back in school I had some reasonable excuses for not being as well prepared for my exams as I should be; needing the study time to pick my graduation outfit, dating the cute bartender from the the next town or being the school party committee. Now, in theory, I should not be able to find any excuses - I've quit my job and I'm in no hurry finding myself a new one. I should have all the time in the world.
Instead, other things keep getting in the way. The fact that Criminal Minds are being taken off Amazon Prime in a month and I therefore need to get through all 10 seasons before then. The fact that it's too nice outside to be inside studying and I can't read anything on my computer screen if not indoors. The fact that maybe I wanted some cookies after all and obviously have to make a Tesco run to sort out the cookie situation.
On average, my studying kicked off at 10 pm, kept going until 4 am after which I got 6 hours of sleep with the intention to get studying again at noon. Six Criminal Minds episodes past noon, I obviously needed some fresh air and a nice run, before it was time for dinner and maybe just one more episode before it was 10 PM and by then, perhaps it was time to get studying again.
Somehow I managed to get my principles, themes and processes together in time for the exam. And proceeded aced it. Apparently, studying project management strategies isn't so different from Great Depression fiction.
Cramming is the shit.
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