Mastering Exam Night: Turning Stress into Success 📚💪✨

What I Learned from My College Days?

Yesterday, I watched this series called Hostel Days. The first few episodes were just okay, but the fourth and fifth episodes really hit home. They perfectly captured that classic “one night before the exam” chaos. It immediately took me back to those crazy college days when we’d suddenly try to become geniuses overnight! 🤓

Back then, sleep was something we’d struggle with every other day. But, on the night before the exam? Boom! Sleep would hit us like a truck! 😴 But no time for that – we had to fight it off and focus on getting everything into our brains! 📚

Honestly, I think the stress of wondering, “Will this question comes in the exam? Will I even remember what I’m reading?” made us so sleepy. Maybe it was just our minds begging for rest. 😂 But there we were, making detailed plans: “Okay, I’ll cover this much by midnight, then this much by 2 AM.” Of course, we’d then think, “I’ll just rest for 5 minutes…” and end up sleeping for 2 hours. 😵 We’d wake up in panic mode with barely any time left until the exam, scrambling to finish everything. 🏃‍♂️

And the pre-exam prayers? 🙏 We’d be like, “Dear God, please let the questions I studied show up on the paper!” Then, after writing the exam, it was all about calculating if we could just scrape by with a pass. Forget about scoring high – survival was the goal! 😅

Now, here I am, working as a senior software engineer 👨‍💻. But honestly, I still don’t know why I did engineering. Everything I studied back then has zero relevance to my job today. I got my answer, though – I didn’t really learn the subjects, I learned how to handle pressure! All those nights where I planned, split my study time, and created a survival strategy just to pass the exam? That’s exactly what I do at work now. Those one-night study sessions taught me how to manage stress like a pro.

So yeah, Hostel Days Web series reminded me that, in the end, what I really took away from college wasn’t the knowledge but the skill of staying calm under pressure. All those sleepless nights weren’t wasted – they were just preparing me for the real world! 🌍