2008 Woodie Awards
SectionsOur View: Thanksgiving break a double-edged sword
Issue date: 11/27/07 Section: Opinion
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Thanksgiving break is dangerously potent.
In the weeks leading up to it, most students struggled with a more-than-usual amount of work. It's always one of the most stressful times of the year, academically.
Then, at just the right moment, we're rewarded with a few extra days off. (And by looking around campus, it looked like quite a few people took the whole week off.)
We stuff ourselves silly and enjoy time with friends and family, only to return to classes completely unprepared for the final stretch.
This isn't to say the break isn't wonderful.
It's absolutely necessary to keep everyone mentally and emotionally healthy late into the fall. Everyone needed a break.
But there's another side to Thanksgiving - the dark side. It tricks you into being lazy and unproductive.
There's nothing to fix that now.
It would be nice to be able to go back in time and get a little homework done over the weekend, but we don't have that luxury.
No, what we have to do now is turn some of those turkey calories into academic energy.
Don't let that tryptophan and wine get you down - there's still work to be done.
We need to stay focused despite these self-inflicted hardships.
That's how the pilgrims would have wanted it.
With less than two weeks until finals, the finish line is in sight.
Once the semester has been completed, we can go back to the good life of holidays with no classes.
We can lie around, when we're not at work, and get fat on festive feasts.
And if we try hard enough, we'll be completely unprepared for the spring.
In the weeks leading up to it, most students struggled with a more-than-usual amount of work. It's always one of the most stressful times of the year, academically.
Then, at just the right moment, we're rewarded with a few extra days off. (And by looking around campus, it looked like quite a few people took the whole week off.)
We stuff ourselves silly and enjoy time with friends and family, only to return to classes completely unprepared for the final stretch.
This isn't to say the break isn't wonderful.
It's absolutely necessary to keep everyone mentally and emotionally healthy late into the fall. Everyone needed a break.
But there's another side to Thanksgiving - the dark side. It tricks you into being lazy and unproductive.
There's nothing to fix that now.
It would be nice to be able to go back in time and get a little homework done over the weekend, but we don't have that luxury.
No, what we have to do now is turn some of those turkey calories into academic energy.
Don't let that tryptophan and wine get you down - there's still work to be done.
We need to stay focused despite these self-inflicted hardships.
That's how the pilgrims would have wanted it.
With less than two weeks until finals, the finish line is in sight.
Once the semester has been completed, we can go back to the good life of holidays with no classes.
We can lie around, when we're not at work, and get fat on festive feasts.
And if we try hard enough, we'll be completely unprepared for the spring.
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Kendra
posted 11/27/07 @ 7:48 AM CST
Very true, especially this close to finals. Let's be honest here - who is actually going to do homework over any sort of holiday break? NO ONE.
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