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Summer Can't Get Here Soon Enough

If only summer was already here and I didn't have to deal with essays, studying, and finals.

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Summer Can't Get Here Soon Enough
Sidney Freitag from Indiana University South Bend

I'm far from the last person who is wishing summer already here and school was out for the next three months. (Or however many months we're out because I'm that bad at math.) In any case, I have never felt so impatient in my life since I was a senior in high school. Granted, when I was a freshman I was just as impatient, but now that I'm a junior I really want the school year to be over with.

It's most definitely due to the fact that I have just completed one of my hardest two semesters' worth of college for my major, which is English for those of you who don't know. I've always been a semester ahead in terms of my classes, but now I'm moving on the last stretch of obtaining my bachelor's degree in English and can focus on my teacher certification minor. I've had a rough year with some of the hardest classes for my department now under my belt (I'm talking about you, Advanced COMP, because you absolutely sucked). Fall semester was so rough since I barely got four hours of sleep or time to just relax on the weekends. This semester has been far less stressful and I've had plenty of downtime to make up for last semester.

On the other hand, there's finals. Again. I don't have nearly as many as I did last semester, but I'm just ready to get them over with. I have two essays that are due during finals week, an oral final and written final for Spanish, a written test for an English class and a make-up poetry line recital from Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Prologue, and I have to print out a bunch of previous works from my publications workshop to turn in as a portfolio before the end of the week. Yeah. I don't think I'm gonna be getting any sleep much this next few days, but I'm pretty sure that's everyone else, too.

There's also the fact that I currently have pinched nerve in my lower back that constantly shoots pain down my spine and right hip every time I move. This'll be the second time I've ever had a pinched nerve before and my first one resulted in me not being able to move hardly at all without being in some kind of pain. My doctor prescribed me muscle relaxers to help with the pain, and I have never reacted well to muscle relaxers since I was first introduced to them back when I had my first pinched nerve a few years back. I get so high, spacey, giggly, and eventually so drowsy that I sleep for a good twelve hours. The aftermath of said muscle relaxers means that I'm stumbling around like I'm hungover and about nearly pass out because I get so lightheaded. I can take up to three per day as needed, but I don't take any during the day because I have to study for finals and work on my essays. It's somewhat stressful and I'm in constant pain so there's nothing I can really do except grit my teeth and use a heating pad.

I just wished I was already done with finals and summer was already here. Is there a way to speed things up some to where I don't have to spend hours studying and then taking finals? If so, call me up because I wanna fast-forward to summer already.

Good luck to everyone preparing for finals this next week, and for those who are entering their last week of classes before finals!

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