Studying for long stretches of time has always been difficult to me. In high school, I was one of those who passed everything with flying colors without having to try. This did not properly prepare me for the amount of studying needed for college. Most of my classes are the sort I can get past in largely the same manner I did in high school. However, I'm in one that wants a lot more than the light reading, occasional paper I'm used to.

This class only has two exams. One of them is on Tuesday. All ancient pottery and sculpture looks pretty similar, and there are 75 images I'm supposed to be able to not only identify by name, but also by year, artist (if known), location (found), location (currently-usually a museum), and how those exposed to it in its time of use would have seen it. There are several different types of pottery I need to be able to identify by shape, and a bunch of pot-painters that I need to be able to identify by style. The most fun is identifying temples that once stood thousands of years ago by a black & white image of the plan (based on archaeological surveying) and an image of the ruins. I have been spending the last several days trying to push this shit into my brain, and I think I might be losing other important information in making room for it.

And then I have a German exam on Thursday. At least it's not as bad as the week before last: I had a German, 19th century European painting, and US history before 1865 (which was only 2 essay questions, boosh) exam. It's just that this one is the biggest deal. So I'm fucking around on the internet.

I should get an annoying alarm program for my computer that jumps in and reminds me every twenty minutes or so to stop watching porn and start studying. Uuggggggh.