GILCHRIST SHIPTON
Staff Scallywag
Oh, how the time has flown by! It feels like just yesterday we were looking in from the beginning of the semester. As this semester comes to an end, the events that will precede have come to me in much more clarity than before, and I feel compelled to tell you of it.
First, the lights will flicker and there will be no one there! The concert on campus will be meh, but at least you can say you saw Kid Ink, I guess . . .
Caffeine-laced hysteria will slowly take over the campus and tighten its grip right until the point of graduation for some. The end of the semester will bring tears of many different origins, some grade-induced, some of sadness and some of pure joy. So make sure to wear your rain boots!
The weather will finally start to warm up, but soon it will get so hot that you need to lather on suntan lotion which will become greasy and get all over your car seats and clothing. This also means that many of us will realize we did not utilize the extra few weeks of winter and will need to hit the gym immediately.
Then you will find out that you probably didn’t pass that class you hoped you would pass, and that your summer job is just as awful as it was before. How is it that you’re not even done with this stressful semester, but you somehow already miss Fredonia?
You will find true love, but just for this summer. You and some aloe vera will become best friends. You will often think about how you hate being bored and miss having tons of work to do. And then you will be sad because you love having stressful assignments and staying up for 72 consecutive hours. Don’t worry; this still all hasn’t happened yet. So for now just enjoy the stress and remember that it will all be over soon. The real question we must ask ourselves is, how soon is now?
Overall the semester will have been one that was anything but lack luster. It was full of promise and did not disappoint! Let’s pretend that one class wasn’t as much of a disappointment, and that next semester we will all definitely be much more motivated . . . at least until the second week of the semester.