Do what you want, but you're never gonna break me...

Take me awaaayyy to better daaayyysss...

Natasha Bedingfield's hit single, "Pocket Full of Sunshine" pretty much sums up the impressive cleanse a little bit of sunshine can do to a person this past week.

It seems like this semester will not give me a break. Not only has winter decided to stay a couple weeks longer than invited (rudely interrupting the entrance of Spring), the lack of sun and vitamin D has seriously brought my moods down right in time for finals.

However, while surfing Youtube in the middle of a study break the other night, I came across clips of the movie, "Easy A" starring the adorable and hilarious Emma Stone. The clip, titled "A Pocket Full of Sunshine," seemed to jump out at me. If winter was going to deprive me of my seasonal dose of natural sunlight, why not help myself to an alternative artificial sunlight?

Plus, I've learned a smile provoked by watching comedy clips on Youtube does wonders when you're stuck in your midnight study blues.

Not only did Emma Stone's iconic soapy bubble hair wash scene successfully increase my serotonin levels (if you haven't seen Easy A, you have not lived), but in my sleep inebriated state, the lyrics seemed to speak directly to college students and our current plunge into insanity brought about by a mixture of procrastination and last-minute finals prep study sessions in the eerily Gothic Anschutz Library.

Looking back on the lyric line, "do what you want, but you're never gonna break me," I couldn't help but personifying Finals Week as some evil stalking villain causing college students to sink into insomnia filled 20 minute naps in order to finish that gigantic capstone project that is supposed to demonstrate all you've learned in the past three and a half years at KU.

Sure, at times you feel like you're broken from the endless projects and assignments thrown at you last minute, can't go on, and find yourself off the beaten track, staring confusingly at a blank wall in a library wondering what you're doing with your life. But Bedingfield's "you're never gonna break me, sticks and stones are never gonna shake me," is meant to provide the listener with a little bit of solace.

Whatever you're going through at this time in your life, know it won't be forever. It always helps me to think in terms of a rollercoaster. What comes up, must come down...and come up again eventually.

So whenever you're struggling to find your pocket of sunshine, take one more procrastinating second out of your day to treat yourself to Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful Full of Sunshine." You might just find that extra push of inspiration you've been searching for to finish off this semester.