Have your hands bent into claws from cranking out those 1500-word essays? Are the bags beneath your eyes creeping their way down to your chin? The foreboding air of exam season is upon us, folks, and we’ve planned out a few helpful additions to your frenzied study ritual (OK, you got us – it’s booze).

Wondering what the pubs in Brisbane can do to relieve your semester-long stress build-up? Here are our top 3 tips:

1. Mi Goreng? Not brain food

Sure, it averages out to 65c a packet, but there comes a point where seeing that little red noodle pack boils your blood more than the saucepan of water. Reward yourself for a hard semester’s work with a few vitamins, some brain food, and a plate of something other than noodles.

With lunch specials at the Long Bar available throughout the week, a filling meal is all yours for just $16. The ability to study without regretting eating your tenth packet of Mi Goreng in three days? That’s priceless.

2. Knock off for a night

Have the words in your textbooks turned to blurred lines? Know the lecture slides so well you could probably teach next year’s course? Time to take a night off.

Four exams are enough to drive any sane person crazy (let alone when some sadistic person schedules your stats exam for a Saturday), so preserve your mental health with some well-earned time off.

Shut the laptop down, walk away from the notes, and indulge in a much-needed drink (or two) at The Fox.

3. One ‘Long’ study session

In the last two weeks, the library’s filled with people you’ve never seen before, and struggling for a computer is risking all-out warfare. The uni bars are crammed with sad sacks trying to nail that group assignment, and your house is filled with more empty Mi Goreng bowls than there are places to sit down and study.

Grab a few study buddies and head to the Long Bar for a session of note-sharing, tutor-teasing, and pots of beer. Nothing calms those pre-exam jitters more than complaining together, hammering out a study plan, and – let’s face it – getting slightly tipsy.

Good luck.