A Day

Ok, finals are over! Everybody stand up, spin around, do a dance, then sit back down. Tonight there will be the traditional post-final-hot-chocolate-with-stuff-in, to be had by all who suffer through this with me. Go Team. So, the most exciting aspect of this end of final examination week is not what I am going to do with myself for the whole week I have off of school, but what I am not going to do. Have you any idea what the day of a working student looks like? I shall tell you.

Good Day. Wake to alarm at 5:45am. Ignore, go back to sleep. Wake to second alarm (oh yes, plural. what if one alarm fails!?!) at 6:15. Snooze til 6:40, at which point we are very late. Do the shower thing and catch the bus by 7:21. 8:30am physics lecture. 9:30am Physiology lecture. 10:30 study, surf internet, study, surf internet*. 12:30pm Physiology lecture. Two in one day? Physiology major does not play. (anyone notice the rhyming, what, why?) 1:30pm go home! Study, Study, Vacuum. Days like this also hold prolonged periods in campus coffee shops. Every department seems to have its own coffee bar which is, supposedly, distinct to the demands of those students. Physics has the h-bar, named beautifully after a form of Planks Constant, which is one of the few shops that puts soy milk on its bar. Chemistry has the Think Tank, which is a TINY hole in the wall that will only give you cookies or bagels. Its as though they try to be just as frustrating as chemistry itself. There will also be walks around the city and excessive amounts of time spent in grocery stores.

*I absolutely refuse to capitalize the word "internet". I have no good reason for this, what-so-ever, aside from the gut twisting feeling that fills me when the internet tells me that internet should be capitalized.

Bad Day. Sleep through alarm one. Snooze though alarm two. 7am, wake up very very late. 7:37am, catch bus. Then it goes like this: one hour lecture, followed by one hour lecture, followed by two hour lab, followed by one hour quiz section, followed by running across campus to catch the bus, followed by 6.5 hours of work. 8:30pm go home, make dinner with the girlfriend, do homework. Depending on amount and extent of homework sleep may be omitted for the good of the GPA.

The stress of this is all eased by the packing of lunches, the preemptive assignment completion, and the occasional 7 hour Battlestar Galactica binge. Your brain needs a vacation, too. For example, I plan to do none of the activities mentioned in prior paragraphs for the next 9 days.
Plan: Nothing.