Our Voice

    Four weeks.  28 days.  40,320 minutes.
    The end of the semester is coming rapidly upon us.  We at The Colonnade only have another three issues to create and distribute this year (not including this issue). 
    When we first think about it, we find this is a sad, melancholy time, and we are sobered by the fact that another excellent school year has come to a close.
    Then we think about it again and realize we can’t wait to be gone for the summer.
    Since our collective return from Spring break, we of The Colonnade staff have found it difficult to get back into the swing of things.  More than one of us jokingly suggested that we don’t put together a paper this week, and though we got a good laugh from the idea, it did sound mighty appealing at the time.
    It sounds appealing now as this column gets written as well.
    After all, if there wasn’t a paper to put together, we would have more time to devote to our classes, which are becoming steadily more time-consuming as the final exam period approaches. 
    It’s hard to get back into the usual groove of going to class as well, and it’s becoming steadily easier to slack off, as the days tick down and the Summer break approaches.
    Some of The Colonnade staff will be graduating in 28 days, and for them, they are suffering from a strong case of senioritis.
    The rest of us just have Summer fever (or perhaps it’s hay fever, but that’s a rant for another day), but that doesn’t make it any easier to focus on the tasks at hand.
    You know, passing our classes, fulfilling our student obligations and, in this case, designing this award-winning publication.
    Don’t get us wrong.  We value our jobs, are privileged to have them, and will continue to do them until the end of the semester.  Likewise, we intend to do our best in our classes.
    Even if, sometimes, our best is managing to drag ourselves out of bed.
    The only surefire cure to senioritis and Summer fever is to see this as the light at the end of a rapidly diminishing tunnel, and to remember that we can’t reap the awards until we’ve reached the end.
    Just think of it this way, in the time it took to read this article, you have just used up five of your 40320 minutes left this semester.
 
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