December 7, 2011 ::
Dead days and finals week are the most wonderful days of the semester.
No, I’m not being sarcastic, and no, I don’t have an easy major to where I don’t have anything too big going on finals week. Think about it.
For all of you upperclassmen that have been through finals before, don’t you have great memories of staying up until dawn with your friends studying and becoming delirious? Don’t you remember that one time that you camped out in the library for 10 hours without leaving and probably wandered around and talked to everyone half the time because all your friends were there? Don’t you remember sitting on the floor in between bookshelves because there were no more seats and deliriously lying on the floor out of exhaustion? Or maybe that was just me…
The thing I love about dead days and finals week is the fact that everyone is enduring the same amount of “suffering” as everyone else. There is not one person who doesn’t have a final paper, project or test during finals week, so everyone is crazily studying and working hard.
I love the TCU comradery that everyone goes to the library during these days and just studies together, or studies half the time and stalks the weird person sitting across from them on Facebook the other half.
I love the witty “I’m dying” tweets that happen when people feel like finals are killing them.
I love that Pinterest only works half of the time because it is so overloaded with people pinning, instead of studying.
I love the smell of coffee and Red Bull lingering in the air.
I just love the spirit that finals bring. Everyone is stressed and hating school and yet are secretly loving being in the library and studying/goofing around with everyone else.
Maybe this is just nerdy me loving the library and school, but I know secretly everyone loves the social aspects that finals bring. So this year when you are camped out in the library, look around at all of your friends and fellow students and realize that even though you probably hate your life, this is one of the greatest and most memorable parts of college.
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After experiencing my first set of dead days, I can definitely agree with this post! It’s crazy how a school can come together in the library over mutual suffering!