The art of mugging

After spendind 2 yrs at the kingdom of mugging, I have successfully picked up a few tips on how to mug at last min fr the xams.. For those who are not familiar with the term mugging, it is tenting in the library 27/7 before the finals , robotically studying an alien subject with a tiny hope of passing the xam. Its a very challenging and complicated process that is highly taxing but makes one learn that there are some things in life that can only be left freee.. To xplain further, this is how it goes:

1. waste time choosing the " best " place to study which usually means goin around entire campus with a 4 kg back pack before suffereing from a back ache and settling down at a random useless place.

2. place issue over. 1 hr gone.. too tired to delve into studies now..so, open laptop - check mails ---> check orkut , facebook --->look at latest gossips, friends' albums etc.. 2 hrs productively spent. (at the worst case, some with a creative bent even write blogs about mugging then..)

3. BREAK OVER! come the studyings...open lecture notes, books reluctantly, stare stupidly at it for half hour, verify portions, stare stupidly for some more time and realise u ve become a dumb ass .noooooooooooooooooo.

4. open the gtalk (the one place where the entire cohort hangs around) and bitch about the subject, xams, NUS, singapore, life to evry online character.

5. become too much stressed ..u r freaking out..need a break desparately..open youtube, watch any videos- good, bad, ugly..still not satisfied ..move to sitcoms to peak at just one episode, another one, one more.. a season..goes on for 2 hrs b4 u realise u ve wasted 6 hrs altogether..

6. get even more stressed out. open lecture notes with a new vigour . " I gotto fight it..win..pass the subject somehow or the other"... mug, mug, mug..mug like crazy ..

7. look at past year probs to practice..just alien figures. turn all notes upside down to find if the prob is in or out of syllabus..no clue. look at other papers, realise its even worse.

8. accept the inevitable fact that u r doomed. go back to watching sitcoms till u fall asleep on top of the laptop. sleeeeeeeeep. beautiful sleeeeeep

repeat the same the next day till u go for the xam..do it pathetic. run to the nearest temple that weekend n start bribing God.