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Figuring Out The First Test Week Of The Semester, With Leslie Knope

"We have to remember what's important in life: friends waffles and work. Or waffles, friends, work. But work has to come third."

Auburn University

Figuring Out The First Test Week Of The Semester, With Leslie Knope

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The first test week of the semester usually goes something like this...

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College Life At UW-Madison, As Told By 19 'Parks And Recreation' GIFs

"I love you and I like you."

University of Wisconsin, Madison

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College Life At UW-Madison, As Told By 19 'Parks And Recreation' GIFs

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison has more to it than just education. The city of Madison is always full of life, great views, and amazing food. For college students, there is so much to do outside of class. College life at UW can be a struggle, but it has so many perks which draw students to coming here and loving it. Memorial Union, State Street, and sporting events are only a few of these perks. Bascom Hill and exams are a few of the struggles as well. All of these things which make up college life at UW can be described with GIFs from "Parks and Recreation."

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Health and Wellness

23 Of Your Favorite Quotes, On Standby

No one memorizes quotes in 2018, that's ridiculous.

The State University of New York at Stony Brook

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I'm sure you have been asked once or twice in your life what your favorite quote is. Be it for your high school yearbook or just in general conversation, one always feels the need to make the quote as groundbreaking as possible. However, no one really knows any quote except the ones that have been said over and over again since the beginning of time. If you're looking for a brand new favorite, perhaps here would be a good place to start.

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Entertainment

The 15 Worst Things About Going To The Lake That Only Lake People Understand

It's not all fun and games.

University of Dayton

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Some may say the most wonderful time of the year is Christmas, but for many it is going to the lake house for the weekend. Nothing beats tubing, swimming, having campfires and playing games all weekend. But despite all the fun you have there are still some definite downsides to spending your weekend at the lake.

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Lifestyle

10 Thoughts We All Have After A Day At The Beach With No Sunscreen

cue the crying

Eastern Michigan University

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We all will probably get a sunburn at some point in our lives and when you do, these 10 things will cross your mind.

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"We have to remember what's important in life: friends waffles and work. Or waffles, friends, work. But work has to come third."

Build yourself up!

Make that time for YOU!

We all feel this way.

Reach out to friends for help you may need.

Get to the test, and maybe it is 4 different chapters that you didn't look at.

But maybe you left the test, and actually feel like you kill it.

But then you get that test back, and realize that you are down a hole unless you get some extra credit.

"Sorry, I have already told you, I do not give extra credit."

And the class average comes back, and its 97, and you feel dumb.

The week is over, and you somehow have to figure out how to make a 96 in each class for the rest of the semester to keep your GPA.

"I love you and I like you."

1. Ian's Pizza

2. When you get food on State Street

3. State Street's coffee shops

4. Gordon's waffles

5. Voluntarily waiting over an hour to get into Basset Street Brunch Club on the weekends

6. Babcock Ice Cream

7. Football Game Day

8. DJ Shawna

9. Having to work out at Ogg because the SERF is under construction

10. Getting lost in the humanities building

11. Walking up Bascom Hill to get to class

12. Regretting scheduling a night class

13. You, to yourself, when you actually go to class

14. Having midterms the whole month of October

15. Memorial Union

16. Weekend nights

17. Sunday morning

18. Texting your mom 24/7

19. Checking Canvas

No one memorizes quotes in 2018, that's ridiculous.

1. "There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." —JRR Tolkien ("The Two Towers")

2. "Get busy living or get busy dying." —Stephen King ("Different Seasons")

3. "DON'T PANIC." —Douglas Adams ("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")

4. "It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then." —Lewis Carroll ("Alice's Adventures in Wonderland")

5. "If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives." —Lemony Snicket ("The Ersatz Elevator")

6. "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." —Sylvia Plath ("The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath")

7. "If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something." —Neil Gaiman ("Make Good Art")

8. "To define is to limit." —Oscar Wilde ("The Picture Of Dorian Gray") (Good yearbook quote, can confirm.)

9. "Some infinities are bigger than other infinities." —John Green ("The Fault in Our Stars")

10. "It is never too late to be wise." —Daniel Defoe ("Robinson Crusoe")

11. "Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for." —Joseph Heller ("Catch-22")

12. "I'll hold on to the world tight someday. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning." —Ray Bradbury ("Fahrenheit 451")

13. "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as understood." —George Orwell ("1984")

14. "We live as we dream—alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully." —Joseph Conrad ("Heart Of Darkness")

15. "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." —F. Scott Fitzgerald ("The Great Gatsby")

16. "Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." —Harper Lee ("To Kill A Mockingbird")

17. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." —Anne Frank ("The Diary Of A Young Girl")

18. "Fight till the last gasp." —William Shakespeare ("Henry VI")

19. "As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life." —Jules Verne ("Journey to the Center of the Earth")

20. "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." —John Milton ("Paradise Lost")

21. "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing." —Herman Melville ("Moby Dick")

22. "Logic may indeed be unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live." —Franz Kafka ("The Trial")

23. "It's better to look at the sky than live there." —Truman Capote ("Breakfast At Tiffany's")

It's not all fun and games.

1. Rugburn

2. Having to wait your turn to go on the tube

3. Sunburn

4. People eating your food

5. Literally dying when you get knocked off the tube

6. Losing your bottoms

7. Being chocked by your life jacket

8. People taking your life jacket so you get the wrong size

9. Going to bed late AND waking up early

10. Being so sore

11. Bees and mosquitoes

12. Literally having 20 people living in one house

13. Cleaning the house before you leave

14. Too many people on the lake

15. Knowing you won't be back until next year

*cue the crying*

1. It's not that bad.

2. I'm a little red.

3. I look like a lobster!

4. I hurt so bad!

5. I need aloe!

6. My sunburn is peeling.

7. It hurts!

8. My sunburn is still peeling!

cue the crying