With Thanksgiving break almost here, I look around my seat in the library and realize that it is particularly more crowded than usual. My friend Jen sits down at my table and peers into my laptop screening the sea of black strings of words that make up my soo-to-be 8-page paper due first thing monday after Thanksgiving break. “I haven’t even started.” she admits to me. When I asked her why that was (since this was thursday before break) she simply told me about her extravagant plan to get everything she needs to get done over break. Fat chance, I think to myself. We are only kidding ourselves if we think that we will pass up quality time with our big screen TV’s on our favorite couch at home, or partying it up high school-style with your hometown bests. And who would want to? Locking yourself up in your rug cross-legged with an open textbook on your left, a notebook on your right, and a perfectly polished paper on the laptop screen in front of you. I must say, that if you even have this thought in your head, please find the nearest wall and with both hands drive your skull against it until you realize this is only a fairy tale. For those that think studying will get done over break are even more thick than the paper-writers. Even if you do manage to remember to take your books home, and if my some miracle you ended up actually removing it from your bag and open it, the chances that you will absorb anything while searching the contents is impossible, as your mind will be too blown away by the fact that you even made it this far. So for all the Jen’s out there who want to save everything for break, confidently stating that it will all get done, I want you to listen closely… Did you hear that? The sound of hell freezing over.
