“Finals Week� so far for me has consisted of spending a weekend “in� and pretending to write a 5-page paper, finally buckling down and writing the stupid thing on Sunday night, sleeping forever, working from 7:00 to11:00 this morning, when I promptly crawled back into bed and slept more, attempting to cram 5 chapters of poli. sci. into about an hour and a half after I woke up, dropping off the aforementioned paper in my T.A.’s mailbox where I had an uncomfortable-ish run-in with my Prof. whom I had never spoken to before in my life and who actually took the paper out of my hand, flipped through it, made comments, and asked me what I thought about the assignment to which I replied a very awkward “it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever had to do�, trucking through the poli. sci. final (gag), sleeping more, and barreling right on through about 2000 years of classical music history.

So now I am taking a break. It’s good to take a break while studying, right? My roommate tells me so, and she’s practically the master of studying. She studies as much as I sleep, which is many, many hours a week. The problem with my breaks, though, is that they never end. My “lunch� break, quickly turns into a “lunch and watch episodes of The Office online� break, which then progresses into a “lunch, Office, and nap� break.

I am a lot worse at all this than I thought. I should probably be more fazed by finals as a general concept. I’ve always been a decent test-taker, but then I’ve also always generally paid attention in/ gone to class. This wouldn’t be such a big deal now if I hadn’t completely fell off the last few weeks and decided that sleep was more important than class. Oops. That was the one thing I tried so hard not to do and ended up doing anyways. At least next quarter is a clean slate. Sort of.

So I guess should get my nose back in the books, or the online music 251 lecture notes, or the math 150 review sheet. Groan. At the very least, I am done with this on Wednesday evening, regardless of how much I did or did not study.

And I have home to look forward to no matter what. Expect something a little more cathartic/ relieved the next time you hear from me. ☺.

GO STUDY!

And GO BUCKS!