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9 Things That Can Only Ever Happen At The KSU Common Room During The University Exam Period

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This week marks the start of #TB to pain and misery for students; it’s exam period at the University of Malta.

If it’s 3am and you’re reading this article from a phone/laptop screen that’s distracting you from reading the notes that have been open on the same page for the past hour, then welcome to the club. You form part of the community that has made it to The KSU Study Nights.

And to those who have experienced at least one of these, you all know of the strangeness that is an after-hours study session.

1. There are always the same people making coffee

Most of us need a big jug of coffee in order just to function at 2am in the morning. But there is usually those handful of people who get up every. 30. minutes. and get themselves another cuppa.

2. The coffee-junkies have influenced you, and now you’re a caffeine addict

It’s 3am, you’re wide awake and you’re envisioning yourself running around the university track because you don’t know what else to do with your energy.

It’s happened; you’re hooked on those coffee granules.

3. You figure out you’re actually a social butterfly

You’re inviting people over to your desk workspace in order to study alongside you, you’re taking breaks with your new friends Lucija and Arthur, and you’re making plans to meet at Nadur in Gozo next month with 50 other people in the common room.

4. You become besties with people you’d usually judge

Betty with the glasses and pink hair sat next to you at 10pm because there was no other space. Now it’s 2am and you’ve taken three procrastination breaks together, you showed her all of the best YouTube videos you know and she’s shared a Spotify playlist with you.

Betty takes philosophy and you take medicine. This friendship match would have never happened in a different world.

5. You become dedicated to your spot

Day 4: you return to the KSU Common Room and, despite the place being packed, there’s nobody sitting at the place you were at the night before.

Day 17: you walk into the KSU Common Room and there’s an actual sign on the chair with your name on it, reserving your spot. You are now a KSU Common Room regular.

6. The amount of take-out deliveries that happen are insane

If only restaurants delivered pizzas until 4am during exam periods…

But that’s ok, because the KSU fam are making sure everyone gets the diet they need during the exam period.

Ksu Cr Pizza

7. You feel nervous, but you don’t feel nervous

Students who study at late hours are usually the students that are fucked. But at the KSU Common Room, everyone is collectively fucked. So it’s kind of okay.

8. And so you laugh at the most basic things

Every 15 minutes or so, someone is cracking up hysterically at what you presume must be the funniest joke out there. So you peep on over to see what all the lols are about. But these guys are looking at a stick-drawn figure at the sidelines of their accounts workbook, and they’re having a laugh. There’s nothing funny here, they’re just crazy. And that’s when you start laughing too.

9. You learn that group procrastination is the best way to procrastinate

When studying at home, you procrastinate by doing the worst things (i.e. stuffing your face from what’s in the fridge or mistakenly over-binging on series).

But at the common room, these terrors just don’t happen. You’re constantly surrounded by people, which means there’s always great motivation to get back to studying, which is really one of the best things about this initiative.

BONUS: You experience relief when it’s 4am and you actually finish that assignment

The final full-stop is produced on page, and you run around the KSU Common Room hi-fiving everyone.

No, that doesn’t happen. What does happen is you pack up your shit, get into your car, and sleep until noon the next day.

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