The Art of Revision

I have another complaint about the British school system, one that most Berkeley students would ridicule me for complaining about until they had experienced it themselves. Here in St. Andrews there is a period of time in between the end of classes and the beginning of exams and it is called Revision Week. There is nothing scheduled during this time and students are expected to use it to revise for exams.

However, this is too much time for us Berkeley students, used to the pressure chamber effect of building essays and exams and, don't forget, socializing.

Instead I will give some key rules to Scottish revision:

• make a shopping trip to Dundee. You will now have new clothes to wear to the library which is the place to be seen.
• only study when the sun is out. Then you must put on sunbathing appropriate clothes and pretend to study while you really nap.
• live in the library. You have a whole semester's worth of reading to do in the upcoming week. Oh and getting those notes for those lectures you never went to would be helpful. When you only have two classes a semester, why bother going?
  
• Drink until you remember why you might want to study.
  
• Go home - its not like you'll do any studying anyways.
• Revise your knowledge of YouTube videos and facebook while "studying" in the library.

Ok, perhaps I'm a bit biased. But as a dear friend of mine fondly termed her European university of high caliber, it was really just "fake school."