The ride is over!

My time is coming to an end. College has flown by at the speed of light. It feels so strange to think about when I was a freshman and how old I felt to be in college. Now I walk around campus and I feel like a grandma at the ripe old age of 23. I can’t image staying up all night at a frat party kegger anymore. I just don’t have the stamina like I used to.

High school graduation seems like an eternity ago, and now I’m going to be walking the stage and receiving my college degree. It’s a trip. As I have gotten older, not that I’m old, but as I’ve gotten older I can feel myself becoming myself, I can feel and see change, and the world looks so different to me.

My whole life my parents always told me to enjoy being young, and all I wanted to do was hurry up and grow-up, but now that I’m grown-up I want the ride to slow down. I get what my parents have been saying; working eight hours a day is a drag.

I knew my days in school would end one day, but it seemed like such a distant reality that I never even really sat back and thought about it. Now the reality is so close I can feel the heat down the back of my neck. All I want to do is live every college day to the fullest and enjoy my youth.

Dead Week

Is it true that Sac State is too alive for "dead week"? I have lived in a few different places in California and attended a couple of different colleges in my travels. One was Cuesta College, a J.C. on California’s central coast, and Humboldt State University. At both schools “dead week” was always allowed if not enforced. the school regulated the professors and didn't not allow them to break any of the rules of "dead week".

Dead week is the week before finals when no new material can be given and many professors cancel class to allow a week of review and studying for finals. This is a helpful time period to prepare for the stress that lurks during the week of hell. Finals are stressful, and the more time there is to prepare for them the better.

It seems that Sac State does not believe in this time of preparation. In fact many professors administer their final the week previous to finals week in what seems to be an effort to escape the semester a week early. I am fine with this idea, but what is not OK is the introduction of new material on top of strenuous studying. A girl can only take so much!

When a Sac State professor was asked why Sac State did not have a “dead week” he said, “Maybe we are just too alive.” Is this true? Do Sac State Students not need “dead week”?