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I AM DONE!
Wow, what a school year! This afternoon at 12:15 I just had the last class of my junior year. I honestly can't believe it's already over, well classes are over - finals are another story. In just a matter of months I will be part of the Senior Class, which is insane to me. Honestly I can remember my freshman year like it was yesterday, and here I am on the last leg of the best 4 years of my life. It gets me too sentimental sometimes so I really try not to think about it
too much.
What's nice about the end of the school year is it's really a social time. Everyone realizes that people are going to be leaving for a whole summer, if not for their college career so there are a lot of get togethers and barbecues and just all around good times. This weekend I'm going to my Water Polo team's BBQ and passdown ceremony, where the seniors passdown a lot of the random stuff that they have accumulated throughout their 4 years, which sometimes is a surprisingly large amount. Other social events include the Senior Dinner. That happened last night, when our dining hall "D- Hall" made all the favorite foods of the seniors, and served them all at the same time. This is a really big deal because d-hall usually spreads out the really good food for every day of the week, so for anyone who went it's usually a huge gorge fest, which is always fun.
With finals coming up you all may be wondering "But Simeon, aren't you stressed about finals?" and honestly I'm really not. It is just another test, but they give you a whole week to study for it, and I don't have to worry about other assignments in other classes. This allows me to focus all my concentration on just one test that is only as large a portion of my grade as any other test I have taken. Plus it's not like I didn't learn anything from the entire year of studying, so usually I find that my finals aren't even the hardest test I have to take. No definitely the most stressful time for me is always the week before finals, as many of you may have been able to tell after the string of quotes about how much work I had to do on my previous blogs. Professors are wrapping up their grading period and usually give out their big assignments at the end to apply everything we have learned. And usually with how deadlines pan out it all occurs at the same time right before finals. For me though, that too is over. I handed in my homework assignment, presented my second to last group project, and turned in my 11 page lab report.
The worst part of the final week though is saying the goodbyes, and even worse the packing. You never realize how much "stuff" you have until you have to pack it into your incredibly tiny car, and your parent's SUV. Thankfully, living off campus I get to keep my stuff in my apartment, until I move into my new town home in July.
Well now I think I’m going to enjoy my newly acquired freedom from the desk/computer that I have been slaving away at for the last 2 weeks. Everyone have a great day!
Posted by Simeon on April 28, 2005 04:32 PM | Link | Email Simeon
