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LETTERS FROM THE LIVING
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
After our final road trip this past weekend (@ the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennesse), it's now the final week of classes before the final exams! We call it Dead Week in GT, and class attendances pummelled like stock market prices to new lows!!
Dead week is a slang term for the week before final exams in the United States of America. The week is known thus because of the propensity for college and university students to save exam study until the last possible week, and because term papers are often due. Students prepare for the exams and papers by pulling all-night study sessions, usually with the aid of stimulants such as coffee, NoDoz pills and Red Bull. During this period some students will suffer from sleep deprivation, increased irritability, and stress [1].
Ref: [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_week, dated 07:34, 23 March 2007
(see what research term papers have done to me!!)
Also, Georgia Institute of Technology students have developed a "primal scream" tradition, in which students open their dormitory windows and scream at midnight, every night of dead week. It's called Midnight Madness!!! Interesting...
Anyway, most of the quizzes, midterm exams, project work, presentations and term papers are coming to an end. Just so you know, amidst the amount of fun and wild things I did, I had to toil through the mundane and stressful tasks as well! I reckon it's a testimony of God's awesome providence of wisdom, strength, grace, favor and miracle! Here's the amazing breakdown:
For 5 modules here at GT, I have done and submitted:
- 20x homework assignments
- 16x quizzes
- 10x midterm exams
- 2x individual research term papers
- 2x group project term papers
- 3x class presentations
and lastly, 5 papers in 3 frickin' days!!! 'Nuff said!
God bless meeeeee!!!!
Laid to Rest at 3:00 AM;