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Have you ever been in the middle of writing an essay and suddenly realize that you forgot what the question is and you have no idea what you are writing about???? Can a student actually admit such a fundamental mistake? Well I just did

Four down one to go. Thats the equation I'm faced with at the moment. I've completed four exams and damn I'm feeling good about it. I'm one of the unlucky few who have an exam on the final friday which is shocking but theres not much I can do about that. At the moment I'm pretty stoked still even though that exam is a fair way off because it is just an elective which I've almost passed already, and I've finished all my med units which are of most importance to me.

Exams are almost upon us and I bet like 99% of the other students at UWA I could really do with a an extra week of study to prepare. The stress levels are slowly increasing and it's bringing back definite memories of the TEE. Those were the last exams I sat less than a year ago and it feels like just yesterday I was nervous about those exams. University exams though are a whole new kettle of fish and differ vastly to those had at school.

I thought it was just going to be a short week because of Easter Monday. I was working on an assignment anyway, so it didn't matter what day it was.

Fortunately, in response to my email saying that I would be dropping off my assignment before the lecture, the unit coordinator contacted me to say 'you do know that ...'. No, I didn't know that it was study break, i.e. a non-teaching week.

It felt like a time-warp as I now had time that I didn't know I had, but knew it would get consumed with catching up with the down-time from last week.

The requirements for an academic degree frequently change. Statistics that I just made up show that 10% of students will have the requirements or structure of their course radically change during their enrolled time at Uni. The Psych major got changed under me this year; the School of Oil and Gas exists largely as a quantum probability function; one recent graduate managed to fail the same maths unit five times before it was removed from the requirements for his degree. However, the University is currently reviewing the way that every course at UWA works, and they want to hear from you. Check out http://www.coursestructuresreview.uwa.edu.au/ and have a read of the briefing paper (the second link; it's very short). If you want to make your opinions heard, you can either e-mail the project officer, or contact the President of the Guild of Undergraduates, Dave De Hoog on president@guild.uwa.edu.au.