Finals schedule for Thursday and Friday. Photo courtesy of slohs.slcusd.org.

  With the first trimester drawing to a close, San Luis Obispo High School students across campus have been preparing themselves for finals — that time of year that instills dread in every heart due to anxiety and anticipation. With exams scheduled from November 6 to 8, teachers and students are perfecting their strategies for the upcoming tasks at hand.

  “My hardest class will be English because I’m not good at memorizing and we’re doing a poem, and then my easiest would be geometry because I haven’t gotten anything wrong here,” said freshman Alexander Kian.

  Not all students are that worried about finals, some have great ways of maintaining and taking in information if it’s given to them the correct way.  Most people have either, audio (by hearing or speaking), visual (seeing or making drawings or illustrations), kinesthetic (hands-on learning), or writing and writing finals. They may also have any combination of the four.

 “I’ve looked at the study guides. I’ve just gone over them, like, one by one, and then if I mess up, like, the question again, I would just do the same question. I would get them all right,” said Kian.

  Finals sadly don’t care how good you are at a specific subject, you have to study for five classes and very few can do that without hard studying. On the other hand, some people fill their schedules with elective classes to have easy/fun projects and finals.

  “I’m not worried at all [about finals], wasn’t worried about them ever, even in my Freshman year. I don’t even tend to study most of the time and just end up as a B-average student,” said senior Nolan Evers.

  Students from freshmen to seniors seem to be ready for coming up this week, some are simply relaxing.