*throws confetti for a week straight*
The upcoming break feels so much more rewarding after this week. I don't think I have ever been so exhausted in my life, and that's saying something because I've once stayed awake for over forty hours.
It wasn't too bad at first, when I was watching my friends cram for their exams while I studied at my own pace. I didn't have anything to really do until Friday, so the urgency of how important these exams could be didn't kick in until the night before, when I stayed up in the student center with Michael and Nicole (a sophomore art major with shoulder-length brown hair and a big heart) until 1:30 the next morning... meaning that I had 7 hours until my exam.
I had gotten a lot done, but I still felt as if I needed to continue studying, so I typed up some notes that I had taken from a study group earlier and sent them to my friend James, as he asked me to. By the time I finally shut down my computer, it was 3:10 AM, and I woke up a mere three hours and forty minutes later.
Six hours and two finals later on Friday, I thought I was finished with everything until I realized that I still had a paper to write that was due at 8:30 on Saturday morning. Because I have this absolute inability to write papers in a short amount of time, I literally worked all night until it was finished... four hours before it was due.
This is where it starts getting a little crazy, folks.
I had to seriously consider whether or not I was going to make another pot of coffee and chug it down as if my life depended on it so I could survive the morning. In the end, Christian (who had been keeping me company while working on her paper) convinced me to sleep for a couple of hours because I was already running on so little.
Those couple of hours somehow turned into four or five hours, and I woke up to Krista telling me that it was almost 10:00. I don't think I've ever bolted out of bed so quickly or sworn so much in one breath before, honestly. I managed to get to my professor's house (where he was holding the final) in a mere thirty minutes to turn my assignments in, but I still wish I would have thought doing what I did through a little better.
SO the moral of the story is:
It wasn't too bad at first, when I was watching my friends cram for their exams while I studied at my own pace. I didn't have anything to really do until Friday, so the urgency of how important these exams could be didn't kick in until the night before, when I stayed up in the student center with Michael and Nicole (a sophomore art major with shoulder-length brown hair and a big heart) until 1:30 the next morning... meaning that I had 7 hours until my exam.
I had gotten a lot done, but I still felt as if I needed to continue studying, so I typed up some notes that I had taken from a study group earlier and sent them to my friend James, as he asked me to. By the time I finally shut down my computer, it was 3:10 AM, and I woke up a mere three hours and forty minutes later.
Six hours and two finals later on Friday, I thought I was finished with everything until I realized that I still had a paper to write that was due at 8:30 on Saturday morning. Because I have this absolute inability to write papers in a short amount of time, I literally worked all night until it was finished... four hours before it was due.
This is where it starts getting a little crazy, folks.
I had to seriously consider whether or not I was going to make another pot of coffee and chug it down as if my life depended on it so I could survive the morning. In the end, Christian (who had been keeping me company while working on her paper) convinced me to sleep for a couple of hours because I was already running on so little.
Those couple of hours somehow turned into four or five hours, and I woke up to Krista telling me that it was almost 10:00. I don't think I've ever bolted out of bed so quickly or sworn so much in one breath before, honestly. I managed to get to my professor's house (where he was holding the final) in a mere thirty minutes to turn my assignments in, but I still wish I would have thought doing what I did through a little better.
SO the moral of the story is:
- Do not leave papers unfinished until the night before they're due because all-nighters are inevitable and will exhaust you the next day.
- Do not leave papers unfinished until finals week is over because you're going to be exhausted and probably will turn in a pile of word vomit.
- JUST DO YOUR PAPERS ON TIME, AND YOU'LL BE OKAY.
Now that the semester is finally over, though, I can't help but look back and feel content. Sure, I've done some stupid things, but I've also done some really cool things, and isn't that how life is supposed to work? I've managed to learn the basics of both life at Belhaven and in college in general, and I while I know that there's so much more to learn, just knowing that I've finally built the foundation of the next four years of my life is so exciting and fulfilling to me.
And the best thing about it is that I won't be going through this learning process alone.
I'm not sure if this sudden fit of emotional overload is due to exhaustion or sincere fondness or a combination of the two. However, I do know that I have made many wonderful friends in such a short time, and it still amazes me that I've managed to find so many people that I consider my family at Belhaven. We may act stupid, geek out over silly things, and have too many inside jokes to count, but there are times that I realize that there is more to our friendship than that.
I'm able to talk to these people in ways that I don't think I've really ever been able to in the past, and it's just beautiful. I'm looking forward to the spring semester with all of my heart because I'm going to be able to spend it with all of these wonderful people. It's going to suck, not sitting at our normal table in the cafeteria and watching all of them buzz with excitement just from being in each other's presence, but the Internet will satiate our need to communicate for this long month. Just... I thank God every day for blessing me with the opportunity to meet so many great people and become so close to them. I pray with all of my heart that He wants us to stay friends beyond these next few years. I feel that if we are meant to stay in each other's lives, then He has already interwoven our paths so we can stay connected.
All I can do is hope, though. Hope and enjoy the time that I have with them now. After all, it's only been one semester.
I'm able to talk to these people in ways that I don't think I've really ever been able to in the past, and it's just beautiful. I'm looking forward to the spring semester with all of my heart because I'm going to be able to spend it with all of these wonderful people. It's going to suck, not sitting at our normal table in the cafeteria and watching all of them buzz with excitement just from being in each other's presence, but the Internet will satiate our need to communicate for this long month. Just... I thank God every day for blessing me with the opportunity to meet so many great people and become so close to them. I pray with all of my heart that He wants us to stay friends beyond these next few years. I feel that if we are meant to stay in each other's lives, then He has already interwoven our paths so we can stay connected.
All I can do is hope, though. Hope and enjoy the time that I have with them now. After all, it's only been one semester.
- Sara
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