Temperatures are dropping. Leaves are changing color and falling off trees. And students are scurrying to finish last minute classwork before Fall Break.
Or at least they should be.
It is almost Fall Break, but there are still tests to take, papers to write and classes to attend - though the motivation to do so is all but present.
While it might be tempting to blow off the next few days of classwork and start fall break early, don't get lazy.
Keep working.
Sure, it's a pain now, but if students stop working, they are running the risk of making even more work for themselves for the remainder of the semester. It is not easy or fun to raise a grade because a student didn't do enough work for the first half of the semester or ignored a project right before break.
Classes, grades and professors will still be here when students get back from break. Bad test scores will be waiting for students who decided to take a nap instead of study. Unhappy professors will be waiting for students who decided to leave early and not turn in a paper.
It's hard to keep working, and it's easy to give in to the sleepiness. Everyone is burned out right now.
The time between Labor Day and Fall Break seems to drag on forever, but Fall Break is coming.
Even if it takes five hours and 10 cups of coffee to write that last three-page paper.
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