It’s almost over! The third quarter of the 2004-2005 school year comes to an end in two days. Time to celebrate! Ok, so we still have a quarter left of school, enough time left to screw up our semester grades, but we are coming to the final stretch, that last straightaway that leads right to summer, and freedom…more or less…
So what is it that makes the third quarter so agonizing? Maybe it wasn’t agonizingly bad, but there is something about the third part out of four that always seems to drag on and on… I’d like to make an analogy to running the mile (on a quarter mile track). The first lap you zip off the line, settling into a cruise, finding your pace. The second you hold up, feeling a little pain, trying to move up within the competition. And then the third…pain…aaaah you’re tired, and even though you’re already more than halfway done, it seems so far from the end. Third lap is the time of hopelessness, tiredness, boredom, the whole why am I doing this trip… and it’s the same with school. By third quarter we’re all drooping. Classes are putting us to sleep; homework gets more and more sloppy and neglected. Even the multiple week-long breaks don’t seem to help much, I almost would rather just keep on plugging away at school and get it over with! We’ve been in school for so long, yet the end isn’t in sight…
And now we’re almost over the hump, and BANG! Time for the gun lap. Now the race begins. Now it gets exciting. Fourth quarter, the fastest, the most frantic, just what we need in order to wake up from the drone of 3rd quarter. Tomorrow is Friday! There’s only one more chapter in the book! Just two more problems on that endless math homework!
So here’s to the end of 3rd quarter and to the beginning of the Finish!!! Good luck to everyone!!!
*Anyone who doesn’t feel the 3rd quarter blues, speak up! Let us in on your secret to survival!*
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8:18 am on 4/9/2005 1. SuperDave
If you think third quarter freshman year is bad, just wait until third quarter Junior year. Because then you got the third quarter of the third year. Ugh. Sean no le gusta.
12:48 pm on 4/10/2005 2. Nella
Word. Third quarter blows. They should cut it out, so like, right after we finish our first semester, we just go straight into forth quarter. That would be good.