For some, the finish line is in sight. For others, that finish line is a wall.
The semester is almost over. In only five weeks, we will all be studying hard for finals and wishing upon our lucky stars that we did well.
It's a welcome sight for many. Only five more weeks, including a break, we can almost count our days of class on our fingers and toes. But for others, it's the quick approaching deadline for many projects and presentations.
Many students leave work until the end of the semester. Maybe it's that term paper you've put off or the art portfolio you should have been working on all semester.
Most of us are journalism majors, so we're there with you — working on deadline and doing our best to perform under pressure. We've hit that "Oh my gosh!" moment where assignments are piling up and sleep seems like a far-off notion.
We've gotten to a point where only you are going to know what's best for you. Trying to fit into a mold that others have formed at this point is only going to cause more stress. By now, you should know your own study habits — even if you're a freshman. You've had tests, papers and projects due all semester. You've worked up a routine, and it's probably best for you that you follow it.
If you're that person who needs to stay up all night studying and sleep all day once that test is done, so be it. If you rise with the sun, that's OK, too. But we don't all have to be that way.
By now, your parents and your older friends have given you advice, telling you what will work and what won't. But it's entirely possible that those strategies only worked for them. You could be a different kind of student, and now is the time to prove it.
If that advice is what you think will help, it most likely will. But don't let people push you to be a person that you're not.
It seems like a lot to handle, but it's been done before. Maybe next semester, we'll start climbing that mountain a little earlier.
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