- Don’t sleep more than 2-3 hours per night
- Drink at least a gallon of coffee per day
- Email your professor the day before the final paper is due and ask them where the paper instructions are located
- Show up late to your math exam without your calculator
- Spend the whole reading day binge watching Netflix
- Miss the class where they introduce and go over the study guide
- Go to your professors office hours and find out if there was a textbook for the course
- Repeatedly ask your professor for a detailed list of the all the exam questions
- Repeatedly ask your professor for the answer key to the exam
- Ask your academic advisor to yell at your professor for being unfair
- Make sure to bring your binoculars to the final so you can see what everyone else is writing
- Read every test question out-loud at maximum volume
- Take a nap in the bathroom during the exam
- Start your essay at midnight the day before it’s due
- Don’t go to the library. Whatever you do.
- Study in Augie’s on a Friday night
- Plan to take a multiple choice exam even if your professor told you it’s an essay
- Ask Siri for the answers mid-exam
- Sleep through your alarm clock – or better yet, just don’t set it
- Tell your academic advisor you need an exception to the Withdrawal deadline ASAP
- Tell your professor you need to take the exam a different time because your holiday break is starting early woohoo
- Have your mom call the dean to insist you need more study time
- Keep your mom on the phone through your ear bud so she can give you pep talks while you take your exam
- Immediately ask your professor for extra credit when you turn in your final
- Don’t put your name on your exam so they don’t know who to fail
- Don’t show your work on a math exam – let your final answers speak for themselves