A lot of people drink coffee. I personally love coffee. I don’t know what I would do without it. Of course, I add a ton of sugar and cream to mine. However, some people drink it plain. Why am I talking about coffee? Well, I was reflecting on what to write about for this week while sitting in my kitchen. I slowly glanced over at my brother’s coffee pot with the coffee filters sitting on top of it. The idea popped into my head all of a sudden, “Finals are kind of like coffee… in a weird way”. (It’s also appropriate with all the tests coming up because I figure coffee will be consumed a lot this week). How the heck are finals like coffee? Well, maybe less like finals and more like our brains. I’ll explain.
So by now you have hopefully studied for your finals. You probably sat down for hours at a time looking over things and reading several readings, studying the study guides, looking at old homework, quizzing yourself with notecards, etc. By doing all of this, you have gained knowledge about what might be on the final. If you didn’t prepare for the final, you probably wouldn’t get a good grade. How is this like coffee? Well, like I said, I like my coffee with cream and sugar in it. So the way I look at it is the coffee is our brain, the cream and sugar is the knowledge, and the spoon is our ability to retain the knowledge we have put in our brains. Just like the spoon mixes the cream and sugar in the coffee to even it out, we must do that with the knowledge/things we study. Plain coffee is the equivalent to our brains before we study for all our finals. Most people will put cream and/or sugar in their coffee because they can’t drink it plain. Same geos for studying for finals. People study for finals because most of the time they will not do well if they don’t study. We need to mix our minds with knowledge, just like we mix our coffee with cream and/or sugar.
You may not have understood the point of this article, but I figured during the stressful time of year, we could use a coffee analogy as some kind of motivation to study and do well on finals! Don’t be plain coffee during finals week. Be a cream and sugar type of person and I think you’ll do just fine!