Finals. It seems to me that finals is an excuse for college professors to add grades to their grade books… their grade books they have been neglecting for the past semester. I’m sure I’m not the first person to come to that conclusion.

I shouldn’t be complaining so much. Out of the six classes I had, I only had to sit for two finals. One class had a take home essay, another had us performing a play that we wrote, I didn’t have to take my psychology final, and the fourth was an on-line exam. But the take-home final was killer, the play had our group of four meeting every other day for about two weeks, and the on-line exam (which was supposed to be open book) was hard because my education textbook was in storage.

Finals brings a lot of unnecessary stress to the real world, leaving the blogging world rather barren. On top of finals (I don’t know why they expect us to do all of this in the space of two weeks), we have to pack everything and leave our dorm room rather pristine. Luckily, I had all Wednesday to pack (last Wednesday), but I also had to put things in storage containers because I live so far away from campus.

And boy, did I have a lot of things crammed into little corners of my room. I felt that as soon as I packed my drawers of clothes away in my suitcase, I had another pile of clothes next to my closet. I feared I would not have enough room for my things. Turns out, I didn’t. I donated a pillow, a lamp, and some miscellaneous clothing to charity. The mastermind behind Residence Life at my college decided that moving out time was the prime time to put up donation boxes; they were right. The boxes were filled with clothes, sheets, and pillows that students couldn’t find a way to bring home.

So, finally, I am back in Hawai`i in my slightly less messy household writing on a desktop instead of a laptop. So, have a happy summer vacation everyone. And I promise the upkeep around this place will be much better now that finals are o-v-e-r.

Posted on May 16th, 2007 by Joy
Filed under: College, Uncategorized