Exam Time.

It is a dark and dreary day in my student life for 2012. Today marks the '2 weeks to go' until exams. However, it is not all bad as today I can look back on the year and remember all those great moments that I had when exams were not beckoning. You can only really appreciate the good days when going through the tough ones.

I went for lunch with the misses yesterday to a little place on Dorp Street called the Blue Orange. It is a pleasing restaurant on a good day as one can sit outside in the garden while the sun shines down. All i wanted was a cold beer in my hand but due to the tasks at hand I was unable to full this desire. Instead, I ordered the home made ginger beer, which made me gag with every sip, and a cup of coffee. This is what life as a student is currently reduced to. Beer has been replaced with coffee and red bull. Being drunk is replaced with being wide awake, buzzing with energy and caged in at your work station starring at work that you have ever seen before.

During the last few weeks, I have struggled to get to bed before 2 o clock. This is due to a busy night out schedule with many clubs to visit and lots of people to see. The next morning, I would wake up feeling hungover with a headache and a stench that would chase a skunk out of its hole. Late nights are still the order of the day except they are induced through long hours of studying. Where I would go out and have fun, I now go to the study centre and stare at pages of information in hope that it stays in my head. Where i once woke up feeling terrible, I now wake up feeling good but still lack the desire to get out of bed.

These are all negative things but one positive comes out of it: budgeting. A student budget is tight at the best of times and when you have to pay for drinks three times a week, buy the much needed protein to keep a man in shape and treat the misses on a date, you just are not going to make the end of the month without making the dreaded call home for additional funds. Exam time is only time where I feel I do not squander assets recklessly and spent half my allowance on brandy, coke and box wine.

It is a tough month ahead but once I get through it, there will be many more posts to be posted; many more memories to be captured and much more insight into the entertaining side of the student life. It is now time for business, time to put the head down and stare into pages of writing. Repeating a subject is only bad for one thing: less time to piss around the following year. It is now time to pass everything and finish the year off on a high note.

Regards
Student Micky