For the Love of St. Patrick

I really just need to vent. Marissa's blog yesterday just kind of sparked this, and I have decided whoever thought of Finals week was an idiot. Seriously stupid. It was probably the same guy who thought that 3 hour night classes sounded like a good idea. You are dumb. But really, does this week measure my competence in Modern Social Problems, or American National Government, or Human Behavior, or really much of anything except for torturing myself for no particular concrete purpose? I pretty much feel like it only measures my ability to starve myself of sleep, social interaction, and today even food in order to work my freaking butt off to write 30 pages of crap and cram information in my brain that I'm going to forget in 3 days anyway. If I don't get everything done that I need to get done this week or end up having to sacrifice the quality of my work just to make sure it gets done, it is not because I am not intelligent or because I am lazy or anything like that. It will be because I do not have the super human ability to concentrate through 16 essays in 4 days off of no sleep and little to no motivation because I've been trudging through classes that I have been burned out on for at least a month. Heck I was sick of government after week 2. STUPID!

I hate American culture, this sense that enough is never quite enough and we have to fill absolutely every moment with productivity. We have to be MORE productive and MORE efficient and get MORE done and work MORE hours and do MORE assignments and take MORE credits. For what? Alright, cool, so because I take too many classes with too much homework, I increase my knowledge on a subject so I can get a job and work MORE hours and make MORE money so I can retire and die. Who the heck cares? What do we really value here, do we value efficiency, or people? I read an article in US Times that was suggesting that America should change it's system and either shorten or just completely get rid of summer vacation because kids lose too much headway in their education during that amount of time. Give me a break. So what, our kids are behind Korea and Japan. Do we really value competition against other countries and being the absolute best and smartest that we can be over memories and relaxing times with friends and family? I would much rather have the life with the most meaning and most laughter and spend the most time with awesome people than the life with the most productivity and efficiency. Why take 17 credits a semester and graduate a semester early and be stressed out all the bloomin time and spend hardly any time with your friends when you can take 12 credits a semester, graduate a semester or two late, and have a lot more quality time with friends. In the end, the second option gets you the same amount of knowledge, but has a lot more fun, a lot less stress, and just takes a year longer? But we don't think that way. We gotta get done fast. What is the rush?

Yet here I sit, my last week with some of my friends for three weeks, and I will literally be typing my fingers off and brains out basically non stop. Just so I can maintain that GPA. Would hate for it to slip from a 3.9 to a 3.8. But at the same time, I've maintained A's all semester and would hate for them to slip just from finals week. BLEH!!! Screw it all.

Well I'm done complaining. Sorry for all that had to read that. I do feel better.

-Human Behavior Interview Paper
-Stats Final
-Modern Social Problems Final
-1,2 National Government essays (4-5 pages each)
-1,2,3,4 Child Welfare essays (3-4 pages each)
-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Human Behavior essays (1ish paragraph each)

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