Procrastinating as We Speak

The title is a little bit misleading... Yes, I am procrastinating, but I've also already done a lot of studying and put a lot of focused time into preparing for my impending doom that will come in the form of a Physics II exam at 5:30.  I'm extremely worried because after my last exam, which I thought went fantastically, I was disappointed to find out that I got a 48%. Woohoo! Yeah! Sweet! Not.

These exams are formatted in a seemingly simple fashion, but I suppose I must've been simpler than the test that day in order to get just less than half the questions correct... The teachers create and solve a set of sixty physics problems that have to do with the chapters that we've been "studying" and distribute their solutions via scholar.  Twenty-five questions "virtually identical" to twenty-five of the sixty solved problems will be seen again on the exam, AND, here's the kicker, we can make a formula sheet! Ah it seems so simple how could I have possibly screwed up so badly?

The night prior, a Thursday night, was the men's lacrosse teams first social of the year with the women of delta delta delta.  I had a grand ole time and at the end of the night I found myself sleeping on a sofa in the lacrosse house.  Thinking back on it, we had designated drivers... Why didn't anybody tell me that they were leaving before I fell asleep? Anyways, I woke up the next day around 8 AM on the day of the test.  Not too worried, I walked home with a little help from the Blacksburg Transit in the rain.  Once I got back to my apartment I crashed on my bed, planning on a two or three hour nap before my physics class at 12:20. But what do I do?? I overslept it! I overslept a class that started at noon! Way to go Andrew, that was just awesome.  Now it's one o' clock and I've got a test in four and a half hours and a hangover the size of an elephant.  I'd never been so out of it before.  So I texted my friend and hustled my way to Torgerson to get some studying done before my exam. Like today, I had my formula sheet finished with equations to every problem from the sixty problem set and I thought, what could go wrong? (not that things hadn't already) So i studied continuously in a haze for the next four hours and once I got out of my test I was confident. I'd never felt so good about a physics test in my life. Clearly it was false confidence as almost all the questions I missed were off by .1 or had the wrong sign in front of it. I didn't put enough information on my formula sheet to pick out the changes and make the necessary adjustments in my calculations.

But what's passed is past, I've got a much more in depth formula sheet today, got a little bit of sleep between studying until 2 AM and a workout this morning at 6:30 AM, and I'm totally sober and ready to take on exam two. Well, at least I think I am. I might be hyping myself up a little bit but I guess that's what I need since I've got to make this grade significantly better than my last one.