This is my bedroom floor from the edge of my bed. This is me writing my "Text-to-Life" project for a Greek Exegesis class. The last item on the to-do list this semester. It is Finals Week at Talbot. Some of you may not necessarily connect with the term, but students like me know it only too well. The last hump on the road, a week of frantically writing papers, studying for exams and last chance to get caught up on required reading.
After this week, it would all be over. What seems like countless of hours in the library and thousands of pages to read, (and maybe $100 worth of photocopies!) has finally come to a pause. Another semester is over, we have gotten some answers, learned a lot but left with an acute awareness of how much more we need to know, to explore, to discover, yet.
One of the things I like about being back to school is the changing of the seasons. (Well, I am in Southern California so that is debatable weather-wise!) We go on cycles of sixteen weeks. A fresh start: new books that smells so good ;-) new set of classmates, a (new) professor/mentor teaching a new course. You settle into a new schedule and travel along the path of learning. And even when you think you are just getting started, Mid-Terms sneak up and coaches you to run faster. Then up ahead, an incline- Finals Week.
That's where I am right now. Seven pages more to write, a get-together to celebrate tomorrow night, then off to New York on a flight! (You know what they say about insanity and rhyming, right? Yes, school is actually hazardous to your mental health.)
4 comments:
Mmmm, I agree! Semesters have all the neat possibilities of growing your mind, meeting great new classmates and profs, poring over material that enriches you mentally, emotionally, academically, personally, and spiritually. They are full of laughter and tears, stress and success--how do those outside academia make it???!!
Oh yes, they have their sanity.
At first I was thinking "my mental health is great!" Then I recalled that I chant historical facts both out loud and silently as I drive, shower, fall asleep... Not something your average professional needs to do... ;)
Good luck on your finals Ting, and happy Christmas to you and your family.
Regards
Danny S.
Happy holidays, Ting! Enjoy the well-deserved break! It's hard to believe that it's been a year since you left Hong Kong. 2008 was a very short year! I love your posts!
Missing you,
Missy
best of luck , have a few beers on me in New York......but u will have to pay.....so nothing new there :)
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