You probably feel pretty dead right now, if you're anything like the Daily News staff. In class, you look half-alive at best - when you're able to keep your eyes open - and you feel like the work you're doing is cadaver-quality. Your roommate doesn't even speak to you when you walk in the room because of the death stares you've been giving each other and the end-of-the-world fights you've been having. Plus, you're battling the same cough-congestion plague everyone seems to be passing around lately.
And don't even ask about the group projects - you don't want to go there.
It's the end of the school year, the week before finals, and if you're not dead yet, you want to be.
What would be nice is if the university would acknowledge that fact and show a little mercy to its students and faculty. The perfect solution is - appropriately enough - Dead Week.
Earlier this academic year, Student Government Association and Team Us made an effort to implement a Dead Week for Ball State University. The proposed legislation would ban professors from administering tests and quizzes during the two days prior to Finals Week. Sure, it's only two days - but we could all use it.
If ever University Senate needed proof that students would benefit from a little break before Finals Week, every student-zombie walking around campus right now would make the perfect argument.
In fact, the week before finals is often even worse than Finals Week itself. Most students are experiencing a pre-finals Freak Out right now, from the unbelievable number of papers, projects, tests and make-up work they have due before the end of the year. The word sleep has been entirely erased from the campus vocabulary. Even professors seem to be experiencing burn out.
With just a few days of classes and testing left before that summer break - and the permanent break of graduation, for some - it's getting harder to stay motivated - or to get working in the first place.
The minor break of Dead Week could be the relief we're all begging for.
A Dead Week policy would be especially helpful because this is the time of year it's most important for students to concentrate - even though it's the hardest time to do so. With just a few opportunities left to raise or maintain their grades, students must get serious about hitting the books - or at least cracking the bindings once before selling them back next week.
Until the university institutes the much-needed Dead Week policy, putting everything we have into these last few days of the school year is the best we can do - even if it kills us.
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