She said: Too much work, too little time

Looming finals and Christmas shopping on a tight budget is not quite stressful enough for me. So I decided to also have one exam, two power point presentations and three research papers to do too, all in the next week. Yes, it’s going to be quite the couple of weeks, but there’s nothing I like more than the thrill of not sleeping and barely even blinking for 48 hours and then filling in 100 little bubbles on a Scantron sheet.

I actually like that I’ll be turning gray and becoming the librarians’ best friend while I down my 189th Diet Coke and comb through the library databases looking for my obscure research topics. Yes, I am developing a small hump from all the leaning over my lap top and carrying every single one of my books to the library every night, but I also get to enjoy the burning eyes that come with staring at a computer screen for hours on end and the rewards of a strict library vending machine diet.

If you didn’t catch on to the sarcasm here then you’re brain must be almost as exhausted as mine. Why is it that so many teachers feel the need to pile on the work right before what’s really supposed to be the most stressful point in the school year (finals)? In my heart, I don’t want to believe that teachers are this cruel, so I’m going to go with the theory that each individual teacher of mine thought they were the only one doing this to me.

Let this “She Said” be a notice-you’re not. I appreciate the effort to cram all of this info into my tiny brain, but is actually not getting to the last chapter of this text book really going to be the deciding factor of me getting a job or not down the road?!

I guess it’s a little too late now, and all we can do is suck it up and do it. I’m sure at some point in my life when I’m working in a tiny little cubicle from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and going home to my 100 cats and Lifetime movies.

However, right now I ask my peers to remember, when you see me walking around campus in sweatpants and a t-shirt covered in ink and white-out, I really am an attractive girl under there. Also, to my lovely teachers, I’m sure there will be some Nerdy-Nelly in class that will get a 100 on the assignment you’ve given me and you may be tempted not to bump up my 68, but I promise: I’ll do better next time! A couple extra points never hurt anybody, thanks in advance.