1. Class Attendance
At this point in the semester, class attendance becomes an irregular thing. Classrooms are more on the half empty side of students rather than half full. 8 am classes are like a ghost town and most students sleep through their alarms with hopes their professor sent a “class cancelled” email.
2. Q-Drop Rate
The Q-Drop Rate rises drastically about this time. The deadline is coming up and students begin to realize that they cannot indeed pull off a B or maybe even pass this class, so they do themselves a favor and go ahead and drop it. They knew in their heart when they registered for it that they were gonna drop it anyways.
3. Phone Calls with your Parents
These phone calls begin with them asking you how your tests were going and how your grades are looking and you try your absolute best to answer these questions very vaguely and change the subject. You instead decide to ask THEM the questions, like could they possibly transfer some money into your bank account?
4. Bank Account Balance
The $6 in your bank account in a good indication of how life is going at the moment. It is going by quickly and you don’t even know where it is going. I mean, you only buy the things you absolutely need, like game day outfits and margs at Chuy’s.
5. Facebook
Social Media is how students exercise the theory that perception is reality. You are as you appear to be, right? That’s what is seems like when the news feed is full of photo albums with pictures of various costumes at parties and cute outfits in Kyle Field. What you don’t see pictures of is that same person having a breakdown in West Campus Library at 2 a.m. six short hours before their test.
6. Football Season
The rankings aren’t going to change very much from this point forward, you are aware if your team sucks or not. Either way you pretend to be a huge football person, when in all actuality you are just a tailgating person and you leave the game after the halftime show. Or maybe you never even went and watched the game from a table at Chimy’s instead.
7. The Weather
Wow, today is November 3rd and it is 80 degrees outside. Last weekend, it was October 27th, and it was 50 degrees. You contemplate what to wear every single day because you have no idea if you will have a heat stroke or if you will catch pneumonia.
8. Your Planner
The biggest tease of all is how close Christmas break looks. Before you flip to look at December though, you must survive the 3 tests a week you have until the week comes when you have all 5 finals in 48 hours. Wow, your professors love you! You sometimes think you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but actually it’s just your professors shining a light on you as a tease.