Struggle of Finals Week

As I have explored TCU’s campus during this finals week, I have been unable to keep myself from doing some people watching.  It’s terrible, I know, but it is SO entertaining.  I really hope that nobody who reads this is offended by my frank observations, but no worries I will really try not to be offensive!

The best observations have all occurred in the library, hands down.  It’s definitely funny to me that the majority of TCU’s campus gives up on their personal appearance every time finals week rolls around.  I’m as big of a fan of the giant t-shirts and Nike shorts as the next stereotypical sorority girl on campus, but during finals week, the dress code around here definitely goes south.  I love being comfortable when I study, but when I look around the library I see some people that are a little too comfortable in public.  Pajama pants are meant for sleeping and lounging around the house occasionally, not walking around campus.  I just find it funny.

Something else that I noticed that I found comical while walking around the library doing my “research” (AKA people watching) for this blog was the surprising amount of people napping.  I took a head count of all of the people sleeping, and I counted 26 people napping throughout the library.  I think it’s so funny that a person can’t go home to take a nap because they will lose their spot within seconds! People are constantly on the prowl for a good seat in the library.  We all want those good cubicles next to the plugs, or the comfy chairs that are hidden away where it is perfectly acceptable to take naps because you are out of sight!

Through all of my people watching during the first half of finals week, I have come to the not so surprising conclusion that the crazies of TCU come out during finals.  We are all so tired and stressed that we no longer care what people think.  I continue to advise against wearing pajama pants in public and am all for taking a few minutes in the morning to pull yourself together before venturing out to study.  You never know who you are going to run into!  But if not, I’ll continue to find the disheveled state of the student body comical.  It gives me a nice little study break for giggling.

I really hope you weren’t offending by this post.  If so, feel free to comment and harass me. Throw some insults my way, and I’ll take them like a champ.  Good luck on finals everyone! 

Procrastination

In my efforts to study for finals, I have done a great deal of procrastinating.  For the past couple of days, I have done everything in my power to avoid studying.  I obviously really don't like to study.  In this procrastination, I have discovered many new funny things, especially on the internet.  I also came up with a new theory of humor - when we are tired and stressed, EVERYTHING seems much funnier.  I laughed at things that I probably would never have laughed at if I wasn't wasting away my precious studying hours.

I discovered that the TV show How I Met Your Mother is quite comical.  I have watched it before, but never straight from the beginning, so I was missing the entire premise of the TV show.  I now understand why it is called How I Met Your Mother, and it now makes sense.  Anyways, it is quite possible that it one of the funniest shows I have ever seen.  I wasted a lot of study time watching this show on Netflix (oops).  Netflix is a solid time waster, and you don't realize how much time you are spending until it's suddenly 6 hours later and yeah, you've laughed a lot but you haven't accomplished anything.  Not that that has every happened to me or anything...

I also thoroughly enjoy looking through Tumblr and seeing all of the "gifs" that the Tumblr bloggers create.  They are fantastic, and really make me laugh.  They are about things that most college students experience, but incorporate tiny clips of a funny animal video, or a movie or TV show. Here is a couple examples from one of the blogs:

http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/post/49455682720/trying-to-motivate-myself-to-study-for-my-last-final

http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/post/49320719311/as-soon-as-i-get-home-from-work-school

These go on for pages and pages, and there are multiple Tumblrs, so there goes another 2 or 3 hours. Whoops again.  I always intend these uses of Netflix and Tumblr as a tiny little study break that usually ends up lasting the rest of the day.  But I'm laughing, so it's all okay right?  The humor distracts from the fact that I am getting absolutely NOTHING accomplished.

No worries y'all, I am now finally getting my finals preparations accomplished instead of procrastinating.  I had to leave my apartment in order to get stuff done, but it is finally happening.

Good luck on finals!