Finals Guilt

[debka_notion]

Finals are awfully strange, as a unit of time. Mine are really not so bad, they're really quite spread out, and so I'm studying for my test in Early Prophets/Nevi'im Rishonim, which is in a week, which is longer in advance than I usually study for much, but there Is a lot of material, so it's good, in its way. But it feels very strange and slow-paced, because there's no rush about it, in a way. And I feel guilty, because many people either have worked like mad and are done or almost done, or are working like mad and won't be done for quite a while yet. And so I feel like I Ought to be up to all hours preparing like mad, but I don't have a reason to deprive myself of so much sleep right now.

On the other hand, I took a perfectly reasonable grammar final today, was a subject for a friend's final project, did various bits of studying, and various and sundry other things today. So it's not like I haven't been busy. Oh well.

Comments

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

Why guilt? You're working at a casual pace because you're very intelligent and have healthy study habits, not because you've done something wrong. I could understand sympathy, maybe.

Thanks again for helping me out today.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Guilt because I feel like I ought to be working really hard and freaking out. It just feels wrong not to be. This happens to me many finals periods, because I rarely get quite that freaked out because I tend to know that as long as I work steadily, I tend to get things done reasonably well without going insane. But when everyone is tired and stressed, it feels sort of weird not to be in the same boat. Dunno.

No problem.