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With less than two weeks until the end of the semester, students around campus have started counting down. And they’re not necessarily keeping track of the number of days until break. No, these days, students tend to countdown to breaks—and the weekend—by the number of exams to take, papers to write, and presentations to give. My Facebook newsfeed is flooded with such countdowns and the occasional update that Megan is on her ninth cup of coffee for the day or that Tim has only gotten five hours of sleep in the past 36 hours. Okay, I’m exaggerating, but you get the point.

So what’s on my to-do list?  Academically, I have an 8-10-page final paper and a final exam for Psychology of Sport; in Warring Masculinities, an English senior seminar, I have a 4- to 5-page group presentation evaluation to write and a final paper on The Forever War, a book about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by journalist Dexter Filkins. In addition to that, I have to keep up on my year-long senior writing project for English, a memoir about my family’s resort on Crystal Lake in northern Michigan.

A week from now, that list will be garbage, but until then, it’s time to log off Facebook and hit the books!