So I am only a few days away from beginning final exams of the semester and the pressure is on! I'm very worried that I am not going to get through all the material I have to get through in time for each exam even if I only have four of them!
This semester took me by surprise as I did not expect it to be so intense and stressful. Final year is very demanding and it is so hard to keep a balance with work, social life while working hard at college to get the grades you want.
I found my Erasmus year last in year in France to be quite difficult. Throughout the entire year, I reminded myself that all the college work would help in preparing me for my final year here in DkIT. How wrong I was in thinking that. I forgot the minor detail that I had a part time job here in Ireland whereas all I had was college work in France. This meant an extra 20-25hrs per week being taken up at my part-time job which left me without weekends to catch up on college work. I also had a three day week in Lyon compared with my five day week here at home.
This semester has had many ups and downs with stress due to many assignments being group assignments and all have very close due dates. I found it tough without the study weeks as it was hard to catch up on work and now only after finishing the final CA's and exams last week, starting straight into studying for exams that start Saturday is very demanding and exhausting.
I think it is very very safe to say, I have never looked forward to a break so much in my life. Its not so much that I'm even looking forward to Christmas, it's that I'm looking forward to parking myself in front of the TV, or going out to a club or even visiting a friend without that niggling feeling that you should be somewhere else, doing something else and that you are doing something wrong by not having a book or laptop open.
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