AAgh Qualifiers

I have a qualifying exam in less than a month and am starting to freak out a little bit. Its an 8 hour exam over the whole of civil engineering curriculum. I feel like I was pressured a bit to take it earlier than normal because my advisor is leaving for a sabbatical abroad. Either it will be over and done with in May or Ill have to take it again in august.

The semester is starting to pile it on too. I have a few papers to write and little to no direction on what to write them on.