Rewriting lecture notes… just to calm your anxiety.
REWRITING LECTURE NOTES… JUST TO CALM YOUR ANXIETY.
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Remember those late nights? The library quiet, save for the frantic tapping of keyboards or the rustle of pages. You’d just finished a complex reading, maybe even outlined it, but a nagging unease persisted. So, you’d pull out a fresh notebook, or open a new document, and start rewriting your lecture notes. Not because you hadn't understood them the first time, or even the second, but because the physical act of processing, of putting pen to paper or fingers to keys, offered a peculiar form of solace. It was a ritual, a mental balm in the face of overwhelming expectations.
This wasn't always about perfecting understanding; it was often about asserting control. In an environment where imposter syndrome was a constant companion and the academic bar perpetually raised, rewriting became our silent anthem against the storm of stress. It was the illusion of productivity, a desperate attempt to feel proactive when your mind was screaming about all the things you hadn't yet mastered. We often joked about color-coding notes to perfection, but the truth was, sometimes those perfectly neat pages were born from a deep, almost primal need to soothe an anxious mind.
For those of us who spent countless hours in the hallowed halls, this habit was a shared secret, a testament to the intense pressure. And for alumni, it’s a vivid memory of how we navigated those years. Did you do it too? What was your secret ritual to quiet the storm?