cramming

Taking a break to grab a little dinner after cramming at the library all day for summer class finals.
Is it really cramming? I dont know.
Cramming as a noun means a hasty study for an imminent examination.
I dont really see how studying the few days before finals is cramming in that sense. Heck, its not hasty. It is definitely not done quickly or in a manner that characterized by any speed at all. Craming just doesn't seem to fit the mode of study at all. Cramming is what you do the night before a history exam in college when you try to remember who did what on what date.
This is slow, methodical, and comes to a culmination a day or two before your final.
Cramming it is NOT. We need a new word.