NOTE TO SELF: Remember to send an email to the editor and tell her you’re really sorry about forgetting to do the finals season article, and ask her for an extension for a day or two. Remember to mention your four exams and how they were all scheduled within a couple days of each other. Most of them were take-home exams, too. Why even call them take-home exams when all the exams are done at home? They really should be called “we won’t record you staring in anguish at your screen for the entire duration of the exam” exams.
Also: remember to apologize to the editor for how short the article is. Mention how you forgot to study for your first exam, and even though you did initially set aside some time for writing the “staying on top of things” article, you ran late on studying for that first exam so you had to use the time you set aside in order to study for the second exam. While it might have been possible to set aside some more time for writing the article, you were so busy worrying about the third exam that you completely forgot to set aside any time at all until you were done worrying about the fourth exam — three days after it had taken place.
Also: remember to delete this note to self before sending your article to the editor — if you don’t it would be really embarrassing.
How to stay on top of things this finals season
Exam periods are always stressful, with deadlines after deadlines, [remove this comma?] and a [the?] [also if you do these edits make sure to do them in snippet and meta description too!] constant dread knowing that the future of your GPA is at stake. Fortunately there are a few simple tricks that you can do in order to keep your finals season organized and be able to stay on top of things, and here they are. NOTE: phrase better?
Tip 1: Make keeping track of deadlines a priority
NOTE: Remember to write something here
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