Three of my courses this quarter don’t have midterms or finals. This is a good thing. I actually feel like I absorb more of the information if there isn’t pressure to memorize and synthesize for a bureaucratic piece of paper.

However, I do have one course that has midterms, and I feel like I struggle most with that particular course. I think my test taking abilities have declined after coming to Stanford graduate school. I never feel like I have adequate time to think on an exam. This time pressure is like a feedback loop to my performance: I usually end up thinking about how I can milk the most points from a problem in the least amount of time. Usually, this technique doesn’t work too well, at least for me.

Sigh.

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