We're All in This Together

It's that time of year again...
Exam Time. *shudder*
Those four dreadful letters, e-x-a-m. So simple sounding, but we all know what they really mean. Late nights, early mornings, messy rooms, too many trips to starbucks and tim hortons for those late night coffees, 12 packs of red rain, not one healthy meal for 3 weeks and spending more time on campus than you have all year. A clean kitchen or bathroom? Forget it. Who's got the time. Trips to the gym? Hell no. There's just too much work to do! Student's lives get turned upside down for those couple finals that just won't write themselves (trust me, they won't.. I've already prayed to the exam gods. They said no). So what do we do? We do it. Just do it. It sucks but we do it because as much as we hate the feeling of endless readings and power point slides and papers all over your bedroom and falling asleep at the library, the feeling of bombing an exam will stay with you for a much longer amount of time. AND, there's actually nothing like the feeling of walking out of an exam with a smile on your face, knowing you fuckin' killed it.
And if that's not enough motivation to study your ass off, take a trip on campus at 2am. You will see that there is an entire school full of people in the exact same boat as you, struggling to cram in that last bit of information before their final in the morning. Being on campus late at night gives me this crazy feeling of secrurity. That I'm not alone. That nothing is weird about my study habits, I'm just a student. We all procrastinate. We all stay up late. We all want to succeed. And one thing is true that for these weeks of exams, in the words of Ben Lee, "Awake is the new sleep"... and We're all in this together.

Good luck, kids.