The End is Near
It’s hard to believe that the end of the semester is here. Finals week is in full effect and pretty soon Christmas break will be here. If this were any other year, that fact wouldn’t freak me out. I wouldn’t think twice about fall semester coming to a close. However, this is my senior year and the end of fall semester means I only have one semester left. One semester until I’m thrown out into the cruel, cold adult world.
Just the other day my roommate and I slightly freaked out at the thought. It’s kind of been an unspoken rule in our apartment that we don’t talk about graduation; we want to live in denial as long as possible. Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited about graduation and, as a liberal studies major, I am excited to start teaching. However, I’m not ready to leave CBU. In fact, sometimes I wish I could just slow time down and extend this last year a little bit longer. We all know that you do that—time will keep going whether we like it or not.
However, the end of the semester means one thing: finals—also known as the most stressful week of the semester. In my apartment, finals week has hit with full force. I don’t think there is a night that went by during this past week that any of us went to bed before midnight. Our apartment is a mess and we don’t even care. We are too busy getting homework completed and studying for finals. There are only a few days left, and I still don’t know how I am going to complete everything. These next three days will be crazy, and I cannot wait to be finished with all of this school work. All I know is I am ready for Christmas break to be here so I can have a time with no responsibilities.
Now let me leave you with this finals prayer I found a few weeks ago:
Now I lay me down to study,
I pray the Lord I don’t go nutty.
And if I fail to learn this junk,
I pray the Lord I do not flunk.
And if I die, don’t bury me, y’all
Just lay my bones in the study hall.
Pile my books upon my chest,
And tell my professors I did my best.
So now I lay me down to rest,
And pray I pass tomorrow’s test.
And if I die before I wake,
That’s one less test I’ll have to take.
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