Finals week - a new perspective

With finals week rapidly approaching this 3 week project aims to focus on the exam week from three angles. First week will be focusing on students from three different departments and how to they study, second week will be looking at professors from different departments and what do they have to say in relation to the topic whereas the third week will find out how students from different departments that are about to graduate deal with the exam period.
For the first week I have filmed three students from different departments- safety management, music, biology and biochemistry, talking how each one of them prepares for exams and what kind of exams their departments have. The videos include Jake Malenko, 28, safety management, Jack Crellin, 22, double major in biology and biochemistry, and Sean Garee, 26, music major.

From Finals Week

Each one of the students had a different opinion on the topic due to the differences in their majors but it seems like all of them have to deal with certain amount of pressure. Crellin, deals with a lot of pressure as he is a double major and has eight exams coming up. He had found a way to deal with it by having someone from his major studying with him because this way they can give each other different perspective and discuss more ideas. In Garee’s department they have juries in front of whom they have to perform individually. It is a lot of pressure for him because music majors usually perform in groups (orchestra), so when they have to be examined by the jury they have to perform by themselves which could be stressful. He deals with it by embracing the fact that he loves what he is doing and that he is doing it for the audience therefore if he is nervous the audience will sense it and wouldn’t like the performance. For Malenko there isn’t much of a pressure because in his view safety management is not too challenging, it is more of a matter of memorizing thus he sees the exams as not being too hard. Overall finals week causes pressure due to the importance of the exams and getting your GPA up but you shouldn’t over stress and remember to stay hydrated and take short breaks during the studying time.

From Finals Week

Next week, the professors in SRU will be under the lens of my camera sharing their opinions and views on the examination week.