(Originally posted on October 14, 2012)
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So, this is it!
Back in college, I have always heard about Hell week but the idea seemed so abstract to me. For the times I considered my busiest, I can still have an eight-hour sound sleep. I can still take my time and beat the deadline notoriously (well, that''s as far as I could remember).
Now that I''m taking a graduate course in UPLB, I now fully understand what the dreaded hell week is. Every exam week is a hell week. It''s the time of the week when sleep becomes a stranger, when bed becomes your mortal enemy, and when pillow begins to be a threat to your (student) life.
The final exam week is ''heller''. The paper works and oral reports seem to connive to pester you on a same date. Case studies and other researches suddenly go out of control. And some activities (for instance, the poster contest) push you even harder. So, this is really it. Aside from beating my deadlines, I still have to study harder to ensure I meet the minimum General
Weighted Average required. So much for being a UP student and for being a DOST scholar. (Don''t get me wrong. I LOVE where I am now, I''m just overwhelmed how hell their hell week is.)
Indeed, UP''s hell week means Stress week, sleepless week, haggard week, tired week, papers week, warla week, and library week! I just hope my brain is still in tact by Friday.
I''m positive I can survive this. And I know there''s more to come. UP to the hell week? I''d better be.
