When Exams Get into You

You know that the effects of exams are getting into you when

1. Instead of cooking decent meals, you

• start cooking whatever instant food that is available in your kitchen cupboard and when the procedure of searching food + microwaving food/boiling water + washing utensils become too much of a chore
• you start buying take-away food and when you have no time to do that
  
• you eat rubbish food such as slices of smoked salmon, Ritz crackers, bread, cashew nuts & Eclipse mint in substitution of a proper meal
• and when you don't even want to spare that extra time searching and chewing on food, you drink lots of wate until you get gastric pain, then you start the entire cycle again

2. You get hooked on caffeine

• You drink more coffee, tea & energy drinks (such as Mother and Monster as people here rarely drink red bull. I've no idea why.) than ever
  
• I have a friend who lights up this candle that's suppose to release caffeine, so that he feels 'energised' as he studies. I wonder how useful is that suppose to be.

3. You stop socialising

• because you find that this is too time-consuming and you'd rather spend that extra minute cramming some facts in your brain
• You start to get annoyed by the fact that you have to mug endlessly while your friend/s can walk around freely because they do not have exams as part of their assessments and that their assignments are due much later (Val, if you're reading this, let me emphasise that I am not referring to you and I promise you that I'm not lying. Neither am I trying to be sacarstic. Really!)
  
• You rarely ever appear online on msn and even if you do, you rarely respond to messages
• You don't even check your phone for incoming messages and even if you do,
  
• You selectively reply to text messages on SMSes and Whatsapp
  
• Facebooking is the most you'd relate to as a form of socialising
  

4. You start to think that sleeping is a luxury

• You wish you can stay awake and function optimally with as little sleep as possible
• You start to adjust your biological clock so that your sleeping habits best suit your studying patterns
• You start to fantasise about yourself being superman/superwoman and go on for days without sleep
• You sleep so little that you look like a walking zombie, feel so light headed till it seems as though you're floating as you walk and start to suffer physical symptoms due to the lack of sleep, such as giddiness, migraines and extremely poor memory (the worst that can happen while mugging for exams)

And in case you're wondering, 90% of the above description fits me at present. The remaining 10% are drawn from past experiences and friends' experiences.

That's my 10 minute break from studying. Back to mug.

Wish me luck!