Studying

This weekend, has mostly been spent studying for an exam I have on Tuesday. Although I regularly need to do research for my work, it has now been well over twenty years since I sat any sort of exam.

It is very hard to study now. I suspect that this is probably due to the fact that most of my neural pathways have now been taken up with (a) thinking about cheese, (b) trying to remember where I put my keys, and (c) devising strategies to keep the kids out of my bed until after 6am on a Sunday morning. I think there is simply no more room in my rapidly-decaying brain for me to retain any more information.

I can also confirm that studying around work commitments and two small pre-schoolers is not the ideal academic environment. I suspect that if Isaac Newton had been placed in a similar position during his annus mirabilis, he would not have come up with important theories about gravity. Instead he would have had a nice kip under the apple tree if he happened to manage to get the kids to settle in front of C Beebies for more than twenty minutes. If an apple fell on his head, he'd probably have blamed the kids and put them on the naughty spot.