Blogger was acting up so this post is about something that already occurred. I think you should read this entry anyway : P
Oh hey!
I started this super awesome blog about a month ago and I've been awesome at updating it...
Well, at any rate, today's entry is going to focus on something I love...FINALS WEEK.
I know what you're thinking -who loves finals week? The answer? This chick. Finals week is stressful and awful for any college kid but there ARE fun things to note about finals week with proper consideration....
1. YOU CAN DRINK AS MUCH CAFFEINE AS YOU WANT AND NO ONE CAN SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. I personally consider caffeine responsible for a majority of my academic success. Last year I had a final in my theology class and the professor was as tough as nails. He refused to give anyone an "A". EVER. (Not really, but you get the point..) I had to write two in class essays for the final. I slowly drank the twenty oz. Red Bull that my friend had given me for my birthday throughout the two hour exam. In my tiny illegible cursive handwriting I wrote eight pages. I aced that sucker. I continued this tradition this year with a pretty dense exam that I had only started studying for the day before. My poison? A twenty oz. coffee from the school cafeteria. (It was dollar deal Tuesday for ANY size coffee drip my friends.) I'm pretty sure I did well on it. This is in no way meant to brag! Seriously. This is advice that probably would have been in Poor Richard's Almanac had someone found a way to make it rhyme or word it more cleverly.
My Secret Santa bought me a case of Red Bull. That's friendship right there.
2. WORK/The Front Desk
At my old job we were only allowed to do homework during Finals Week. At my current job I can also do homework. Going to my job forces me to study. I actually get work done as opposed to the hours spent in my dorm periodically checking facebook, eating Kashi cereal, writing things on Post It Notes, not doing my dishes or laundry, etc... However, a few days ago I decided I deserved a little bit of a break. I'm allowed to use Pandora to put on some Christmas music and spread the Holiday Cheer. Unfortunately, I've had Rihanna stuck in my head for the last eight days. So instead I forced the residents in my hall to listen to "We found love" on repeat. When Pandora died on me, I then forced them to listen to me sing it at the front desk. If my boss had been nearby he might have tried to find a legitimate reason to fire me just to end the madness.
3. THE IC (Information Commons)
I love the IC during finals week. (That's the Information Commons for you non-Loyola readers of my blog.)
Everyone is there. Everyone. All the time. And yesterday I was doing some last minute cramming and I saw a girl dressed as a dinosaur. I'm not lying. It was incredibly strange and I took a picture of her on my phone in a creep-like manner.
This is what the costume looked like. (Not the creepy picture I took)
4. The Halfway Point Where One Loses All Motivation to do work
I still have two finals left. Neither one will be too difficult. What have I opted to do instead? Update my blog and watch Slings and Arrows (which, while mildly entertaining is not living up to my expectations).
I also offer these for finals procrastination:
www.themoviebox.net
www.writtenkitten.net
Lots of holiday Cheer!
