Tired but Happy

I never realized how productive I can be in a single day. Yesterday I crammed for my Land Law examination. Land law being one of the hardest subject in the English Legal System, for one although a relatively small country, England has a long history of property law. To make matter even worse England is very fuzzy with records. Needless to say voluminous accounts of law, statutes and guidelines need to be revised in order to understand English Property Law. But what does this have to do with me?

Well simply put, instead of doing my revisions I got engrossed being a couch potato. As you can see, Olympics just finished last Sunday although I have two weeks to do my revision, I decided not to read anything or do something during the Olympic season. I chose not to to miss Anastasia Liukin tumbling in gymnastics or the speed lightning of Hussain Bolt and the fish like swimming of Michaels Phelps. In other word I procrastinated. Only to realize that after the Olympics I have only one day to revise, the following Monday which was actually yesterday.

To make matter even worse I need to do a 2000 word essay for my Public and EU law subject, and not to reign on my parade, I was not able to sleep good. WTF!!! I woke up 10 in the morning monday and calculated that I have actually less than 24 hours to revise for my land law and that I also need to finish my essay. I was actually getting very stressed as the clocks keep on ticking and I have not covered anything substantial yet.

I slept round 1am today and woke up at around 4:45 am, I went to the University on my way there, inside the coach I was riding. I was left with nothing to read except my student law review magazine. There was a problem question there that I tried to memorize as I find it very very informative and useful. It was a two page article but pack with information, in fact too much information was contained there. I patiently and religiously recited in total silence all the passages in the article, it was about a problem in co-ownership but it tackled almost the entirety of the syllabus of land law, from registered to unregistered conveyancing to lease and mortgage.
Honestly I was reading the whole day, yesterday but it seems all the things I am reading just go straight to my eyes then out of my head, as if I am like the demented Margaret Thatcher, I utterly and disgustingly forgot every single information that I just recently read.

Come the day of the exam. I was in total amazement as I was like a scholarly lawyer answering the problem and essays that was given in the exam, punctuating every details with relevant case laws and scenarios that was seemingly correct in my judgment. I finished answering the first problem case and I dont know if the God of Fortune answered my mothers prayers.

All the problem that I encountered in the exams were based almost exactly on the articles and situational scenarios I memorized direct from my student law review magazine. I am not sure if my professor will be impress as I am damn sure that she wouldn't , on the answers I scribbled in my essays, but one thing I am sure the 30 minutes I spend memorizing the article was truly worthwhile compared to the laborious hours of incessant reading I was doing yesterday. I can feel the fatigue settling in my body now, but still I am happy. This is such a unique feeling, being tired and yet happy thinking I was able to do a lot in a single day cramming.

I feel like I am an elite Olympian athlete hehehe.