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I have just had the weirdest week of my life. I guess it began at the start of the month. I'm a junior in high school and for some reason I had stopped doing my homework for basically the entire month except for maybe one or two assignments a week. So my work had been building up for a while, then finals starts to roll around. For my Mythology final i had to read a book then relate it to myth. I was supposed to have read the book by the 18th and include summaries for it. I started reading on the 21st. So then I spend my time reading my book and I notice myself reading it at an unusually slow pace. On the 24th, we were supposed to have a plan about how we were going to relate our book to myth turned in. I, however, only finished the book after school ended. Late that night I finished my book but was too tired to finish writing the summaries for it. I wake up the next morning at roughly 10:00a.m.. I look outside my window and was quite surprised to see snow in the street. Throughout the week I had been looking at that post about the snowdays and the lack of them and had been thinking to myself "That's never going to happen here." So, I spend the rest of the day working on Boy Scout stuff that my mom really wanted me to do. I don't remember on the 26th, but on the 27th I finished typing up the summaries for my book. I was kind of hoping for school on the 27th because I had a few questions about the write up for my relation to myth. But, to my complete surprise again, there wasn't school again. Very odd considering that it hadn't snowed at all over the weekend. So for that day I decided to do my homework that I hadn't yet done, expecting the schedule to still have finals. As it turned out, the schedule was shifted a day forward. I got my questions answered and then had a five page paper to write that night. Well, surprisingly, I managed to get it written, albeit late at night and being very tired. I figured that, since all I had to do was turn in the paper, I would catch up on my sleep during class. I wake up the next morning (this morning), and it turns out that we had a two-hour delay because of the snow so I got more sleep than I had expected. So, then I gathered all of my stuff, went to school and had all of my finals which I feel went better as the day progressed.

I don't know if made my point very clearly in this, but basically I'm saying that I felt like some sort of power (I call them "the powers that be") was making it possible for me to catch up on a month's worth of assignments in time for my finals. If you think you've something similar happen to you I'd really like to know what happened.

In the past three years, there've been no less than five classes I should've failed in. I managed to somehow get a barely passing grade in each. No way I should've passed some of 'em, but I did. Higher power, I guess.

Well i ditched for a month had a project in bio i did last minute scored an A on then I had an english essay scored another A in that then got suspended for ditching to much. :D

mine isnt really specific but I do that a lot take a long time to get something done and everything just lines up perfectly in the end even when you don't think it will...

this method will get me in big trouble one day I am sure of it

I tend to try to pass my exams without studying, and so far I've never failed a major exam. For instance: My 'O' levels were passed without more than a couple of days of flicking through textbooks. But I don't believe in a higher power, only destiny... If it happens, it happens.

I agree 100% fatal

I'm not the kind of person who is glued to their books before finals but I'm also not the kind that picks it up for 20 minutes and aces it

I steadfastly refuse to study. I believe that studying a single subject like that just damages the learning process.

I pretty much never study. Sure, I'll do the actual work and take notes, but I don't really read over anything before a test.

I think the point may have been missed. I'm not talking about acing a test without studying. Lots of people do that. I'm talking about having some force completely out of your control allow you to miraculously do something you needed to do. Like, in my case, completely random snow days allowing me to finish my work.

That actually happens to me a lot. I don't have my major paper that is due tomorrow done, and suddenly we have a five day weekend because of snow days. Very weird. The weirdest thing is that it has happened quite a few times. It really is very weird.

And on the other part of this. I'm the guy that sleeps through class in the back of the room, never studies, and gets an A in the class. You know, that [censored].

I don't know about a "Higher Power", but I definately have some sort of luck. It's just little things mostly. I have my hands full and a wind blows the door open for me, things like that.

Yeah. Stuff like that.

Small stuff happens to me, but I'd rather put it down to sheer luck.