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Thursday, March 09, 2006
The following is something I wrote to myself to break my Midterm writing block. It didn't hit me in the first semester, but this semester it is hitting me hard. It's in a freewriting style, more so to get my brain and fingers to work together. This is an attempt to break my writer's block, which has been plaguing me throughout midterms. I know I am knowledgeable about the material; I just need to relax, focus, and put together a logically coherent answer in order to do well. Take the facts as they are given, read them once to comprehend, twice to understand, and if you do not understand them the second time, read for a third time. Do not start writing until you know what the facts are. A misconstrued fact may affect your analysis of the issues. Also, focus only on the test. Be in the moment; do not worry about Civil Procedure or stuff you need to do after the exam. Only focus on the exam and nothing else. Additionally, do not concern yourself with the length of other people's answers. It may look like they have spotted a number of issues, or they spent too much time on too few issues. Strike a balance and do only enough analysis as the facts and time permits. Also, pace yourself. A marathon is not won at the start; it is won towards the end. Much like a marathon, the student who is able to pace themselves and focus on the really important issues will be able to finish strong and cover the most ground without falling flat on their face. Exams are a mind screw as much as anything else in life. Everybody acts as if they know the material. Some are cocky; others are arrogant, doing anything to skew the curve. Keep you head on your shoulders, worry only about yourself, and you'll do fine. A little competition is a good thing, too much leads to paranoia. Once you get to paranoia then they have beaten you on the exam and you haven't even put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. An exam in many ways is also a mental workout. You need to remember to breathe and be careful not to go too fast or too slow. The brain is like a muscle, too much or not enough exercise and you can strain it like any other muscle in the body when you ask it do some heavy lifting. Remember, these exams are only midterms. An ok performance, only means you have a little catching up to do. A poor performance means you have a lot of catching up to do in addition to reassessing what you are doing wrong and how to correct it. An ugly performance, well you get the idea, but you'll need to pull up on the stick and hope you barely scrape the ground. What's done is done. Time has a funny thing of making future things seem far off, and past things unimportant. It is only when things are present that we tend to focus on them. Plan, Prepare, Prosper. If it means getting Q&A books or practice exam books, GET THEM. If every semester continues like this, you are going to go nuts!
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