The Tripos Exam Stress Thread 2012

I rarely get stress. I get despair, apathy, depression, misery, melancholy, anger, irritation and so on, but not stress as such. Sometimes I think it would be a good thing, as it would be a motivation to work!

Are your exams over?

If not, I find that working "on the clock" and documenting what I've achieved with iDoneThis helps me to keep track of how hard I'm working.

Like you, I'm still not stressed per se though.

Yeah, ploughing through my final report atm. Which is a lot less worrying than exams, but is almost as frustrating

Some of the Emma IA mathmos made this and posted it on our college fb group - this is the way to revise!

Some of the Emma IA mathmos made this and posted it on our college fb group - this is the way to revise!

I am feeling your pain so much right now. Translation both ways is all I've done all day! I'm currently translating a past into English paper where the text is about the cultural significance of sofa catalogues and contains the Russian word for 'penopolyurethane', which I didn't even know was a thing! The proses are a million times worse. I did one timed and largely without a dictionary last night, which went really well, but most of them are significantly worse and make me want to cry a lot when I look at them because I don't know any words. I've started rewriting the English in the passages into simpler sentences that actually make sense before beginning to translate, but obviously there won't be time for that in the exam...

I didn't know the word "effulgent". I think that I would do even worse in translation than you, since evidently I don't even know enough words in the one language that I can speak fluently (English) Sadly my talent for languages is even more minute than my talent for Engineering.

Hahaha, I don't know what "effulgent" means either, that's why I was panicking!

Are your exams over now?

Yes, thank God. They went inconceivably badly. Good luck to everyone, there is light at the end of the tunnel!

Some of the Emma IA mathmos made this and posted it on our college fb group - this is the way to revise!

Oh dear, surely they weren't that bad, I find that I always think I've done worse than I really did, so I think you'll have done fine And at least they're over...I would just like to skip the next three-and-a-half weeks...

Oh, they were I don't think that I got over 40% in any of them. Thankfully I only had three, my other 5 modules were coursework only, so I think that I've passed the year, providing this report is up to scratch!

I'm not looking forward to revision being over... it means I'll have no (legitimate) excuse to have pictures of old Bolshevik revolutionaries plastered over my walls :/

Oh I don't know...I have Salvador Allende and a Che Guevara calendar

PRSOM

I usually just have the "big three" (Marx, Engels, Honecker, who I occasionally pretend is my grandfather if people don't recognize him, for the banter). I've added Lenin, Stalin and the entire Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, circa 1917... which is a bit much for everyday life, perhaps :|

One can never have too much Lenin in every day life.



(I definitely like this song way too much and listen to it whenever Russian is making me despair - always good to know that Lenin is always alive and always with me).