Finals Suck!

I thought that the week before finals was bad, well I was proven wrong! Finals week is very stressful and annoying. Most people that I have seen are either studying very hard or they don't care at all. Some of the finals that I have to take as a freshmen are much easier then other people that I have seen but the stress of finals themselves is overwhelming. It almost seems that you can study as much as you want but you have a very hard time retaining any of the knowledge that you should know. You begin to get to the point where you can no longer cram anymore information into your head and you just need to go to bed. Sleep is probably the best thing that you can probably get during finals week because it ultimately helps you to retain more knowledge and it helps you remember things that you may or may not have studied in the past and besides it feels good to get a good nights rest.

Advice: What I have come to learn during my first finals week in college is not to party but to start studying for all of your finals a week or two ahead of time and take it in sections. When you do this then you are less likely to worry and also to get a good nights rest.   

OH NO FINALS!!!

Finals week is next week and just about the entire campus is stressing out for them. You can feel the tension in the air and everyone was comparing their final exams to one another. The interesting part about the week before finals week is that everyone wants to find some type of way to relieve their stress. For most of the people on campus they try relieving there stress by partying. I have been invited to a large amount of parties, on and off campus. It seems as though in order to escape from the immediate concern of finals, people look to use something to distract themselves from it. This type of method never really works for me because when I come back to the work, that I was avoiding, I feel more stressed than I was before because I have less time to finish doing what I needed to do in the first place. My old basketball coach would tell us that there is no reason to be stressed out if you know the material. This advice has helped me in the past because I feel less stressed and more confident when I know the material.

Advice:  Instead of procrastinating with your work, fight the urge to not do the work and just do as much as you can and be happy with what you know.

Deck the Halls

This week it final became December. I am so excited because I am already starting to count down the days until I get to go home for Christmas break. We are just about to finish up our final week before the stressful week of finals start and basketball is getting more and more time consuming because we are starting to have more games, some that are further away than I would like. Now is the perfect time to have a little bit of a stress reliever. This past Wednesday some girls on my hall decorate the hall to look like Christmas and I was able to watch as they did it. Watching them build this winter wonderland was wonderful because I was able to stop thinking and stressing about all the work that needs to be done and really think about the beauty of the winter time and of Christmas. Moments like these, make me glad that I live on my hall because it makes my day so much better. Go, Eagle Third Floor South! :)

            Advice: Take time out of your day to enjoy the simple things in your life because it could change your entire outlook and potentially make you appreciate everything around you.