Things You Will Definitely Hear/Say During Exams.. And What They ReallyMean

THEY SAY:  "OMG I was up til like 3.30am last night revising"
THEY MEAN: Take off a minimum of half an hour off any time given after midnight, probably more like an hour. Let's face it, the later the time the more exciting the story. The only time of the year that staying up til the small hours working is kinda rock'n'roll..












THEY SAY: "I've had such an unproductive day"
THEY MEAN: "I sat down at my computer with good intentions but instead spent the majority of the day facebook stalking - your boyfriend back in 2007 was really attractive, what happened there!?"

THEY SAY: [in response to 'How did the exam go?'] "Alright, you just never really know how exams are gonna go"
THEY MEAN: "Absolutely smashed it!" But being British, this is obviously a completely unacceptable response.

THEY SAY: "Shall we have a group revision session"
THEY MEAN: "I need a group therapy session" Desperate need to have our concerns socially accepted. We also all need to know everyone is equally as underprepared as us and essentially, we do all appreciate a really good group moan about how badly organised the module/exam/course/uni/your life is.

THEY SAY: "Sorry I can't make it tonight, I'm revising"
THEY MEAN: "I will probably spend just as much time watching films/procrastinating tonight as I would if I went out for a drink or food with you, but being in close proximity of an open book makes me feel much less guilty." Perhaps peripheral vision will absorb some information while watching some Game of Thrones.

THEY SAY: "Lets do something after the last exam!"
THEY MEAN: "Lets have alcohol, lots of alcohol, after the last exam!"



Because whether you've failed, passed, disappointed, celebrated, have a job, have no idea or all of the above...sometimes, alcohol is the correct answer.

Good luck in your exams everyone! :)

Positive Procrastination

After refreshing the feed for the fourth time in ten minutes, you still don't care what that girl who left school at 15 is doing with her boyfriend today. Thanks to an intricate and elaborate search of Daily Mail, you now know what every member of TOWIE wore yesterday. And you've now spent your weekly food budget on ASOS.

Maybe it's time for some more productive procrastination?

No one can work all day every day and it's natural to start flagging after a couple of hours. Here's my recommendations of guilt-free procrastination.

1. Guilt Free TV: Documentaries

Bonus points if it's related to your course. As a psychologist this basically stretches to anything involving humans if I'm feeling generous. Although, my exuse for watching Jeremy Kyle to 'understand human issues' has lost some credibility. Seriously though, documentaries make you feel clever and interesting without the actual effort of reading.


2. Phone Mum/Dad/Friend you haven't spoken to in a while.





3. Clean/Tidy

Clean house, clean mind! Super-satisfying and will generally make you feel better about life. You could even end up finding that thing you've been looking for since forever. Plus it might make it easier for your epic moving-out clean looming in a few weeks time.


4. Sell old textbooks/clothes.

Get some cash for the summer. There's the usual suspects, like ebay and amazon, but there's some really useful sites you might not have hear of. Fatbrain will buy your old textbooks for a fixed price, free postage. Vinted is a clothes swapping app where you can buy and sell unwanted clothes, but what make its interesting is that you can swap clothes with other Vinted members too.


5. Try a new fitness class.



You will always feel better about yourself. Worst case scenario if it's horrible, you might actually end up glad you have work to do.. SUCH a shame you can't make it next week, pesky exams.


6. Enter competitions

Bit of a random one, but there are so many free entry competitions, and someone's got to win!

7. Guilt Free Baking

Bringing baked goodies makes you everyones friend. FACT.

My housemate introduced me to a world of guilt-free baking, with recipes that sound odd (replacing butter with vegetables) but really work - especially the chocolate based ones. Practise your best nonchalant domestic goddess voice, for when you tell your revision frazzled hungry new best friends that these brownies are only 27 calories.. http://undressedskeleton.tumblr.com/post/72039348626