h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Eleven days until my first exam this year where does the time go?

..Time aint goin anywhere, it´s just you moving along..
Are you prepared?
Do you feel nervous?
Cold shakes?
trembling, sweaty hands?
gotta pee every two minutes?

-sounds more like malaria then..

Thanks AD. Symptoms experienced include a kind of knowing what lies ahead, wanting to pee and nausia. I guess I should be heading for the home pregnancy tests too while I am in the chemists tomorrow.

Hath
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Thanks AD. Symptoms experienced include a kind of knowing what lies ahead, wanting to pee and nausia. I guess I should be heading for the home pregnancy tests too while I am in the chemists tomorrow.

Hath
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..I know very few people who would be gratefull for a malaria-diagnosis!. But anyhuey, youre welcome. Besides the symptoms mentioned, do you have any other reason or two, which could sustain your suspicion of being, eeh,.. loaded?

If you are really nervous about this exam thing, maybe some baldrian-herbs could be helpfull? Could be it´s just placebo-effect,but who cares, if it works..


You´ll be juust fine..
best wishies

A.D.

NO, absolutely not 'loaded'. I am more likely to have malaria than that and I havent left the UK in over 10 years! And I would DEFINATELY prefer malaria anyday

I find my doctor can prescribe me with stuff thats stronger but I may give baldrian herbs a go.... where would I find them? Boots, Holland and Barrett, or my local chinese herbalist?

Hath
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..Well, ok, -but never underestimate the power of da holy ghost, though the very thought is kinda creepy..
-Any weird dreams lately?

I am almost certain that your local chinaman has a wide selection of rare prescriptions; powdered reindeer-testicals, dried seahorses, fungus and the like.. Maybe even baldrian, which (supposedly)calms the nerves, without tranquilizing the mind.
(-worked for me,anyway..)

Out of plain curiousity; what sort of drugs do you expect the Doc to equip you with, and what kind of effect are you hoping for?

Stay tuned
A.D.

All my dreams are wierd so no telling there really

Anyway drugs: the betablockers I took a couple of years ago worked wonders for the short term, but you take them a week before hand and it is now to late for that. I changed my doctor last year and he gave me diazepam last year(excuse the spelling) which was REALLY bad news as my brain went to sleep. Thought I might just stick with Bachs Floral Remedy this year - until you came up with your suggestion. Need to surpress some of the nerves, get a good nights sleep, relax a little.....

Hath
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Wow! ..Diazepam (spelling is accurate) is the kind of stuff we have in our ships medicine chest(clysmas),to treat acute insanety, a group of the stesolids also used to limit the nervous activity in case of manic depression. Either your Doctor is crazy, or you have the worst cases of existensial angest in the history of examination! -and i thought that was my destiny!

Might sound like mumblejumble, but focused meditation also works within an open frame of mind.
A good nights sleep and relaxation is definately a good prep, but (i believe) that overcoming by understanding is far better than suppressing, whenever possible. What is freaking you out?

I have a very rational approach to things in general, but i also believe in forcefull energies being accessible to the suggestive mind.
If you have prepared yourself, you can do it, because you are determined to do it, not focusing on the outcome,but on giving it your best shot!
I hope that you will not take offence in my wiseguy-attitude, but the case is that i suffer from irrational fears on this issue myself, and still have to work with it everytime iam to be put to the test, however wellprepared.

Yours gruely
A.D.

Diazepam 'I in a daze' is how I remember it these days of course where the 'i' goes depends on how much of a daze. I have to say I did feel relaxed and better than I had in a long time but it was also great at impairing my ability to focus clearly

Accute insanety, manic depression or existensial angest hmmmm now theres a tough choice . Certified a genius - I know they say that all geniuses are a little mad - so that’s a possibility, depression no witty remarks but I wont rule that one out either, angst ooh most certainly. I think my doctor may have a fair insight but the treatment was way off for what I needed.

To me there is nothing mumbo jumbo to me about meditation. I have been known to participate in self-hypnosis and audio enhanced relaxation techniques. I just have to many other things to learn between here and the exams to learn how to do meditation as well - which is a bit of a shame really. Maybe for next year it will be handy. I concur about nothing beating understanding as the way to go but - its a tough one to get to the bottom of.

I get very anxious in exams. About 10 years ago I did an OU course. My assignment marks were all good I think all my assignments were over 80/90% (one 99% one 98%) so I went in fairly comfortable that I was doing alright especially as it was a subject I knew a fair amount about. I sat and looked at the paper and found I couldnt answer any satisfactorily my mind just went blank. I did the best I could but it was a real struggle. I walked out the room at the end and just started crying uncontrollably it was a horrendous experience and a relief to be out of the examination room. A friend who had driven me miles and miles to the exam had come to pick me up and brought her boyfriend with her. I sat there absolutely devastated the whole way home - we had planned to go out but I was way to stressed for that. I barely scraped through

What is freaking me out? Not knowing enough. Not knowing the right things. Blanking in exams. The prospect of failure. The prospect of not doing as well as I could. The prospect of poor results based on lack of commitment this year. Ability to waffle. Ability to go off topic. Ability to not understand the question. Thats all I can think of right now I am sure there is more if I let myself think on the topic

I will be giving it my best shot and I will try to be my normal rational self but I am not a natural in the examination hall and I regret my results ALWAYS reflect this.

Wiseguy? Nah. No offence. I am sorry you have irrationalities on the same subject. Its tough and I dont know how to crack it. I am seen as the person to ask things as I seem to have a grasp. In reality I am just another struggling student who may appear to know it all but only because she has enough books and online resources to help her through those difficulties. How do you deal with it?

Sorry to beat you to your destiny - I am sure there is room for more than one

is called for right now I think - perhaps with a large shot of brandy

Hath
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..How do i cope? well,basically i use my fear of being inadequate to push myself into endless repetitions, untill i reach the point where the letters starts to run amock and copulate franticly on the pages.. Then i put down the books and take a walk on the beach, or something. Forgets the whole thing for a couple of hours.
The paramedic ex. was a piece of , cos i found it all really interresting, and we were well prepared.
I´ve, just yesterday, completed the 4-day ARPA-radar course, which is prepatory to a 5-day full-monty bridgewatch simulator ex., starting monday.
And, however interresting i may find it, i know for certain that the instructors will do their very best to freak us out, and if leaving any gaps open to failure and calamity, hit us hard.. with zero tolerance.
It´s a 360 degr.wiev, movable bridge,(in case of collission; HTX-enhanced surround-sound system..) -completely specked with all kinds of electronic aids and devices, that are of another make than what we have been trained with, and we will have to get a grip on handling these on day one.
..I´m nervous!
..Pass me a shot of that brandy, will ya´?
A.D.

-HEY?!
..as you celebrate your own first passing !!
(I very much hope that "congratulations" will be appropriate!)

I hope congrats its the the right word too . If I see MODIS, Landsat, NOAA, ADEOS2, AVHRR, whiskbroom or pushbroom sensors, black body emitters,dwell time, IFOV, GRE, PSF or active microwave radiometrey mentioned again this side of September I may just myself. Now all I have to do is wait for the results

Well done you on your 4 day extravaganza. Head down for the next one?

Cheers AD . Good luck.

Hath
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Lined up ready for you, alternatively there is always the brandy, if you can reach it from there

Hath
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