Achieve Ultimate Zen With Our Students' Original Exam Haikus

Stressing out over your studies? Have a haiku.

With ATAR assessments finally upon us, we asked Student Edge members to write some original and inspirational haiku poems about exam resillience.

The hope was that the haikus would help you achieve the ultimate zen state of nirvana, or, at the very least, give you the opportunity to procrastinate for a few minutes.

If you're not familiar with haiku poetry, it's an ancient form of Japanese artistry consisting of just three lines (made up of five, seven and five syllables, respectively).

We provided the following as an example:

Exam prep is hard
But you know what's much harder?
A score of zero

Impressed? Amazingly, literally every submission from our members was better than ours (and there were more than 400 submissions). Check out our ten faves below!

• Must revise exams

  Don't want to be a stripper

  Want to be Elon

  Lily-Marcelle from VIC

• Exams got you down?

  Take a breather, clear your head.

  You can't study stressed.

  Kaylee from NSW

• Make revision notes

  Cry, Cry, Cry, Procrastinate

  Pass the exam yay

  Jess from VIC

• Fall out of focus?

  Headphones in, nose to the grind

  Keep snacks on standby!

  Caitlin from VIC

• VCE is hard

  But it only happens once

  So just one more month!

  Jane from VIC

• HSC is key

  The future is in your hands

  Party hard later

  Thaomy from NSW

• I am really screwed

  Played FIFA over study

  But now I’m Messi

  Nikola from WA

• Don't forget to breathe

  Your grades do not define you

  Your door will open

  Hayley from QLD

• Exams make me sad

  But chocolate does exist

  Now I am not sad

  Doz from NSW

• Up all night cramming

  "Morning already?" I sighed

  Cramming is bad bro

  Noor from WA

Thanks again to resilience expert and poet Kelly Van Nelson, who provided five winners with signed copies of her Graffiti Lane Poetry Collection.

To everyone else, go crush those exams!

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