Academic Engagement

I always get anxious before an exam, now is no exception as the steadily approaching Chemistry final encroaches. I have spent the last day, night, morning and day studying and there is a point where one can no longer continue studying the same problems over and over in a fruitless attempt to change one's fate. It is too late at this point, a point where no amount of effort will yield any likely long term success in terms of academic memory recollection when needed in the clutch. All there is now is the waiting and as one such Heartbreaker declared, it does seem like the "hardest part." So like a boxer in the locker room warming up and waiting for his match to begin, shadowing and staying light on his feet in an effort to stay loose; I wait, ready and resolved to go forth and wage academic warfare against the legions of buffer and common ion solubility problems. At this point, a frantic dash to review and regurgitate concepts and theorems would be more hazardous than helpful, contributing only worry than comfort. No regrets, no more worrying, this exam is just one more mountain to climb and I'm as ready as I'm going to be. There's nothing left to do but to just take the exam now and have confidence in my academic testing abilities.