{"id":5132,"date":"2020-02-21T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bracketyackrc.wpengine.com\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2020-03-12T18:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T23:59:27","slug":"a-visit-from-the-midterm-fairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5132","title":{"rendered":"A Visit From the Midterm Fairy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Jasey Roberts<\/em><\/p>\n

Picture me in my bedroom at 2AM, sitting on my unvacuumed floor, tighty-whitie clad, and weeping like usual. I had gotten a 54 on my last exam, and I had just commissioned DoorDash to bring me a large calzone from Mac & Bob\u2019s that I could cry into – effectively diminishing my New Year\u2019s goal of a bombastic beach bod by late April. Midterm week was rapidly approaching, along with a looming desire to start practicing trapeze on the ledge of the tallest building I could find.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, in the haze of my half-digested calzone and solid thirty-two minutes of sleep, I began to hear a voice, or perhaps more of a premonition, maybe. It was a woman\u2019s voice, claiming to be someone from another realm and time. Her name is the Midterm Fairy, and while I\u2019m definitely not qualified to give you advice on your midterm week, she apparently is. Here\u2019s the mad knowledge she laid out for me, in no particular order:<\/span><\/p>\n

Midterm Fairy\u2019s Doctrine<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. Give yourself time to sleep. <\/span><\/i>Given the choice between staying up all night to get something done and just getting a solid 8 hours, you should be going for the latter every single time. Most likely, whatever you need to get done will be easier if you\u2019re driving with a full tank. On top of that, it\u2019s just about being kind to yourself. Even if you miss a deadline, your mental wellbeing is more important than grades. Hot take, I know.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Feel other people\u2019s pain. <\/span><\/i>Yes, we get it, you have five exams, a research paper, an annotated bib, an oral presentation, and for some reason a doctoral thesis due this week, but so do the rest of us. If all your non-school-related brain power is being used on how much you really hate school this week – I have news for you – you\u2019re going to <\/span>really <\/span><\/i>hate school this week. Alternative method: listen to other people\u2019s burdens in addition to voicing your own. Recognize that it\u2019s hard for everyone and it just objectively sucks, and somehow it\u2019ll become less hard and objectively sucky.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Visualize your success<\/span><\/i>. It\u2019s the second semester of school, so chances are, if you\u2019re still here (and breathing), you\u2019ve taken midterms before. Congratulations! Unless that other time(s) was some kind of cosmic fluke, or there\u2019s some kind of AI violation we need to know about, I would implore you to just shut up for a second, breathe, and pat yourself on the back. You\u2019ve done it before, and you\u2019ll do it again. The Midterm Fairy (and her humble messenger) believes in you.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> Best,<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> -Jasey<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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