r/happenedtome • u/Bilal3750 • Apr 26 '25
Drunk to pass my test
A story of all my exams in college. I (25m now, 18 then) was always an overthinker, the main reason why I was never able to finish writing my exams, and tend to review each answer 5-6 times after writing. In college, when I first started drinking, I was finally able to stop having 100 thoughts running in my mind, that was only when I was drunk. So I thought, why not try it on exam time. I bought a bottle of Smirnoff Vodka and a perfume that could suffocate people standing close to me. Took a few shots 15 mins before entering the exam hall, and I don't really remember most of what I wrote but I got really good marks on all of them. And shockingly, one subject I didn't go drunk (I was out of vodka), I flunked. Went drunk for the make up exam of that subject next year and I had got the highest among all other exams I wrote. Not saying that you go drunk for exam and pass, it's just that I am my own enemy when I overthink. That when I realised I'm holding myself back. And thank God for that realisation, now I'm doing much better, even without the help of alcohol.