Hello all! First, I’d like to apologize for not updating as frequently. Why? It can only be that time of year again…Finals Week. Usually around this period spaces everywhere from P-Gill to the library fill up with students being studious. As an English major and Sociology minor, in lieu of most finals I have long papers to write (so far, I’ve been assigned 5 total and have just successfully finished all of them!)- whereas students taking classes in the sciences have an extended night of studying for cumulative exams.
To prevent students from suffering from a potential melt-down about their workload, Bates supplies “care packages” (which typically involves a grab bag of chocolate, gum, and other snacks that the school has generously provided you, at a price). Tomorrow (Monday), there will also be a study break session, from 4-8 PM, at Gray Cage with staff alert and ready to give students a free massage. Now, how many schools offer that?
PS- A brief note: As classes have already ended (you’ve got to hand it to the administration for giving students that time to relax and prepare), I wanted to share a picture taken in our last Public Sociology class of the semester (also my last one ever, having completed the requirements for the minor, and by far one of the best most exceptional classes I’ve ever taken here at Bates). We decided to surprise our professor as well as commemorate the social work each group has done, by dressing up in the same colors as our textbook (“Community-Based Research & Higher Education”). Naturally, she loved it!:
Sociology fever.
As the fall semester starts to wind down to an end, the sentiment echoed from the show “Seinfeld” really does it miraculously as squeezing the life out of a stress ball or incessantly hitting the “That was Easy!” button from Staples: “Serenity now! Insanity later…..”
