exam stress and sucky roommates

everyone here is really stressed about exams, they are not semestered so all exams are cumilative. so imagine your most stressed out friend when it comes to exam time and multiple that person so they take over every persons personality at your college and in your house. there you have it folks, its hell, no one wants to talk or hang out. they don't seem to be able to caparementailaize or time manage so they have a moment where exams are not the only thing on their minds. my flat mates are shorter then usual leaving this place a hell to be in, its like having five mathews without even one sal to balance it out, ok maybe not that bad!!! but really no one talks anymore, I feel uncomfortable sitting in the living room and stay issolated in my room.

The thing is the colloge was talking about semesterization and there is huge resistance. I say both sides at first. coming from a partial semestered program, I always enjoyed the half credit courses more, I got more out of them and it allowed for more variety in the courses you get to take. The main arguement against it is that it will lessen the social aspects of college. That if people had exams both in december and may that it would prevent people from being so involved with societies and campaigns.

the thing is I bought this at first because it is true the environment here is so much better then back home, so much more seems to happen. But I think there is a huge misconception in there arguement. With exams only at the end of the year you start lossing people involvement and campaigning for a good month to two months before exams. When there are exams at christmas and spring, you have less exams, there is a smaller gap of time from the beginning of the course till the end so more of the material is fresh in your head. so acutally there is only a few weeks before each set of exams when people stop getting involved and you almost never see people as stressed as they are here. (except for the one friend that I mentioned before)