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Show If. :. , Just Stuff ' O pi by Jnn Help! I'm drowning! At the beginning of this quarter, sort of as a New year's resolution and an attempt to get myself off on a good foot I decided to stay caught up in my classes and do the reading assignments prior to class; begin the research papers and final projects when they were assigned and not the night before they were 1'" due, attend classes regularly and h, keep up on the lectures. V I did great, for the first week or two. I then realized, as I do every quarter after I've made this ' resolution, that reading about the "mossy tap root system" or "the ff fine science of consumer decision m '' making," isn't nearly as fun as hitting the ski slopes, buzzing downtown for a Coke, or even sitting on the staircase engrossed in idle chatter. Working for hours on a statistics problem or writing an essay on the "effects of the media" seems to lose its zip when compared to catching a good movie, plopping in front of the TV or be-bopping over to a dance. Of course, school work isn't the only evil. I learned along time ago that I need to be involved to be happy. Consequently, I'm saddled with meetings for this, meetings for that, posters to order for one thing, tickets for another, a lesson to plan for one group and a speaker to arrange for another. It's that way for everyone. No matter how much you do, you think you can do more, and as an unwritten rule, no matter how much or how little you have to do, it will take all of the alloted time to complete it. If we were given 10 more hours in a day, merely to catch up, we'd just find more things to do to fill it, and would still be about a day late and a dollar short. Sure, I'm behind in my reading, I have a paper due tomorrow that I have yet to start on, and I'll put in an all-nighter studying for my test it will all get finished, eventually, and on time, but right now, a bunch of us our heading down for a Coke, let's face it, you only survive college once! |