Hell Week

As the end of the semester is approaching, different requirements and exams are bombarded to students. For students with "understanding" teachers, it is not a problem. But for others, especially for us UP students, it is very stressful.

In the culture of the UP students, there is something called the Hell Week. Hell Week is the our term for the final examination week. But as what I observed, I think it is not. It is rather a term for a week full of exams and deadlines of different requirements. During these times, most of the students don't have enough sleep or worse do not sleep at all. Usually, because their brains are full of terms and formulas, the students are "out of their minds" or "sabaw" as they coined it. Also, most of them are "high" due to the caffeine and all other food they ate or drank just to keep them awake.

For me, my Hell Week is this week since I have 4 examinations and there is also a fifty percent chance that my papers will be submitted this week. It is a very crucial week because of the fact that two of my examinations are final exams; one is a long exam in which I only have few notes and the PowerPoint Presentation are not yet uploaded; and the other one is the fifth long exam in Math. Even if my hell week is not really bad compared with the other students, I still think that I must mange my time well and try not to lack sleep. But, despite the pressure, I am still thankful that I will take one exam per day so there is no day that I have double or multiple exams. That will be more stressful.

At least with that kind of schedule, I am able to give equal time in every subject I need to study. I can also work with my other requirements that are due next week. Moreover, I can focus more on the other final examinations that are scheduled during the final examination days. With all of the advantages I mentioned, I can say that I am very lucky. It is because I am adjusting to college life and it will be very difficult if a very stressful finals week will go along with it.

If you noticed, I did not write anything about last week. It is maybe since I cannot think of something good to write about or I just simply don’t feel writing about the events last week. There are times that I believe that nothing really significant happened for the whole week.

I know that the things I experienced or will experience in college so far like the Hell Week are still few compared to others. But at least these little experiences, either good or bad, will somehow affect me. I cannot imagine how I will react when I went through many things especially those negative. Maybe I will be greatly affected emotionally. On the other hand, however, I know that I can still handle it.

I really hope that I will survive my first Hell Week successfully.