the fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly - an intelligent whine

augh it is so hard to study for history. it's ideas, concepts, overarching arguments you need to get in your head, not facts, and these are a whole lot less solid, more nebulous, difficult to grasp- like smoke. but it's not smoke, because when properly controlled they can make very powerful essays; but to put them in your head, keep them there and train yourself to be able to flexibly twist these around to answer a whole array of questions, angles, and then do all this in a very limited time under a whole lot of pressure- it's hard, to say the least. and furthermore a lot of it is down to what you do during the exam itself, because you can study well and still be unable to perform. actually, I think this applies to a large majority of the social sciences as well. but not law- or at least, not the stuff I'm studying in my international law module anyway.

ps: I know I'm also probably watching too much tv when I read the sentence "Neither Paris not London understood the essential dual function of Hitler’s colonial demands", and my first thought is that Paris and London are girls. AAAAAAH