If At First You Don't Succeed...Make A Last-Ditch Effort

T-minus 2.5 hours of studying left before I hit the sack and call it good for the second try at my European Union final exam. I'm taking my time and not rushing through any of the subject areas - this time, the policy is: knowing a lot about few things is far better than knowing next to nothing about a lot of things. I am strangely calm this time around - after all, I can only do better this time. Or the same. In any case, this can't hurt me. Well, actually, yes, it could, but only if I fail AND my petition to the German department gets turned down. Then I'm screwed. I'm hoping that's an unlikely conjunction.