Snow - a reason not to study?
As I sit here and type this out, I currently have quite a few things to do over the Winter Holidays, which involves studying for my January exams, and one piece of College work that comes to mind in particular is my Astrophysics report on How to detect Exo-planets. Interesting stuff (or not, it depends whether or not you like Astronomy! :P), but a lot of theory. Which hurts my brain - a lot. D:
With only three more days until Christmas, it’s currently snowing outside, and it’s freezing cold inside the house. What would I give to go out and have a snow ball fight with friends, or go sledging (although I made a snowman the other day, christened Bob “the Snowy” Snowman - how it got that name, I will never know!) xD
Anyway, my point is this - how is anyone supposed to study during Christmas (don’t forget the New Year too!) and still do really well for the exams? (Not unless you have no social interaction with anyone except for Christmas, Boxing Day, and New Year - I mean, no one will study on those days, right?) o_O
You may or may not have this dilemna, but in the UK where I’m from, most people that attend College usually have examinations shortly after Christmas. That, as well as holiday work given by teachers, can amount to quite a lot of time spent indoors, cooped up in a room feverishly labouring away at your studies, instead of spending some well deserved time to rest. I suppose you can argue that you can do it all at once and get it over and done with, but it’s very hard to do when you have the temptations of snow outside, and your friends inviting you to go out to places where you can hang out and have fun. I mean, you’ve just spent several months in College, why not have a break? (And obviously have a Kit-Kat while you’re at it, or some other chocolate - Ferrero Rochers are my favourites! Unless you hate chocolates, in which you can have whatever you like!) ^^
I can probably tell what you are thinking - College student moans about doing revision over Christmas. But isn’t Christmas supposed to be a time of rest? As Charles Dickens once said “I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday — the longer, the better — from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.”
I’ll leave it at that, and get back to work.
