By snoadmin
Every year it’s the same thing. We cram in enormous amounts of school work, school-related activities, unpaid internships, work, and the occasional festive shindig, which often consists of a bunch of your fellow classmates getting together to whine about the cramming.
If you’re human like me, there are times when you fantasize about leaving it all and just slowly crawling back into bed, completely disregarding the consequences.
With finals approaching, that feeling becomes overwhelmingly frequent and your past nicotine and caffeine addictions seem to make sudden comebacks.
As a former daily smoker (I now allegedly fall under the social smoker category), the old habit is knocking at my door.
It’s an excuse for me to take a walk and bum a cigarette from certain editors’and just take a break. (That’s the problem with so-called former smokers: We never have cigarettes but we’ll always jump at the chance of a free cancer stick).
I’m not in any way encouraging addictive behaviors, but I will say that doing something that relaxes you a bit during these tense times of late-night studies and last-minute final projects helps you oh so much.
If your thing is just sitting back and having a cup of tea or a gigantic slice of pizza, I say do it. Or maybe you’re more “health-conscious” and your thing is taking a walk. Either way I say, what are you waiting for?
I don’t think anybody has the secret for a successful semester. Although the obvious method is to study hard in order to get good grades, it seems as though having good grades is not enough. We want to do as much as we can in order to get the hell out of here. I say, enjoy your finals, relax a bit, and if you know you absolutely cannot take 18 units next semester, do yourself a favor and don’t aggravate your mental health by doing so.
– Julio Salgado
