Word: exam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether praying, fasting, eating or studying, Syed said one of his friends explained to him why fasting and practicing Ramadan is not such a bad idea for students at exam time. "With all of the tests, it's all the more reason to remember...
...sensitivity to disturbing GW behavior peaks at exam time, when the workers are at their most visible in the dining halls, libraries and dorm windows with noses pressed to computer screens. The procrastinator watches them jealously from her window, taking a break between rounds of computer Solitaire...
...Exam period holds a special challenge for a procrastinator. There are fewer people to go to Tommy's with three times a night, and the guilty conscience--an unfortunate by-product of procrastination--rears its ugly head...
Instead, the procrastinator should obtain a study carrel. This working space is popular during exam period, but usually there are a few empty stalls. If these are filled by fellow motivated procrastinators, she should not despair, and instead move into an unoccupied audio-visual room. No one distracting there...
...neglected world of the Harvard procrastinator, exam period provokes a type of panic unknown to other students. Sure, the procrastinator may incite envy as she traipses around campus, seemingly oblivious to the stress of the season. But she knows that papers must get written, exams must be taken, doom is at hand. At that moment, the procrastinator becomes insanely jealous of the GW's security in a self-disciplined ability to make a study schedule and stick to it in a timely manner. It's so easy for a GW, she thinks...