Summer school can be brutal. No matter how much I rationalize, justify and bargain with myself about it, summer rolls around and I just can’t bring myself to go back to school. That was certainly the case last summer. I…
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No reading was done
I don’t remember what I was searching for when I found this article. It was something along the lines of “does anyone read during reading week,” because I felt terrible for catching up on my sewing and playing video games*…
Random study/worky tips (or, $%@#%#$@ — OMG!)
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… MULTI-ESSAY WEEK For other students, this may be Super-Multi-Exam Week, Superior-Memorization Week, Assignment-Death-Match Week, Read-All-Those-Chapters-You-Didn’t-Read-for-the-Last-Three-Months Week, etc. In a desperate attempt to correct erroneous and dooming work habits of the past before…
How not to go crazy during the exam crunch
Ah the glorious hell that is pre-exam time. Your room has dirty clothes and garbage (mostly packaging from unhealthy snacks) strewn across the floor and every other flat surface — amidst, of course, the disorienting sea of paper that has…
Seeing clearly
A perk of being an optometrist’s daughter is that you get to test out revolutionary technology. As a self-proclaimed, passionate anti-glasses individual, I’ve looked far and wide for a solution, and orthokeratology (ortho-k) is the answer. What is ortho-k, you…
Zombification by Midterm: A Call for Students to Dress Funny This Week
Halloween is on a Saturday. This only happens every few years, so it should be a grand affair. Keyword: should. I always forget that, for normal people, Halloween is a mere boost in sales for candy companies and a chance…
I love you, but I love me more
We all have those days. You know what I’m talking about: days when you are so stressed you wonder why you were even born, why somehow you were dealt all of Fate’s crap cards in one blow, why you deserve…
Post-Modern Procrastination 1: Thgin Eht Evivrus I Lliw
(It looks funnier without the question mark.) It’s 7:48pm, my bowels are acting up, I have not had the urge to crochet since finishing my very bright hat, annnndddd… … It’s 7:55pm. My bowels have been dealt with, my throat…
Are YOU getting some?
Sleep, I mean. (Chuckles to myself) This afternoon, realizing that I could resist it no more, I took a nap. Wrapped up in my huge comforter and feeling the coolness of my Egyptian cotton sheets against my skin, I realized…
My Only Hope: One day Someone will Realize my Mediocrity is Actually a Super Human Feat
UTormail: Inbox Email # 339 of 340 Date :Tues, 10 Feb 2009 00:09:10 -0600 From: Heather To: Phil Subject: AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey Phil, Ya, you’re right, I really haven’t gotten back to you in a while. This is…