After the joy of Thanksgiving break (which was MUCH needed \u2013 so nice to be home!) I was unlucky enough to come back to school to an extremely large pile of work and a big ol\u2019 presentation for my Social Studies tutorial. Not so fun! So needless to say, I\u2019ve spent the week cracking down on my assignments, drinking lots of coffee, and spending late nights at the library.<\/p>\n
I did have one near-horror story with my paper, though. For background: in order to print using library printers, students have to swipe their ID and pay with \u201cCrimson Cash,\u201d which you can load onto your card online. The paper I was writing was for American Constitutional Law, and given that our professor is a Law School professor, we needed to submit our essays in hard copy at his office at 4:30. I was working on my paper down to the wire, went to print at 4:15\u2026 and discovered I didn\u2019t have enough Crimson Cash to print it! Probably the most stressful 7 minutes of my semester were spent trying to load money onto my account, waiting for it to load, and finally printing my paper. A full out sprint across Harvard Yard later, I submitted at 4:27 \u2013 phew!<\/p>\n
Yesterday also marked the end of classes, which means that today is the start of our nine day reading period. I was joking with friends this morning at this day (that is, the first day of reading period) is the \u201cbest day of the year\u201d \u2013 mostly because it\u2019s one of the few times all semester you can feel guilt free when you\u2019re not working. I took full advantage of my mini-break and treated myself to dinner out last night and a long night\u2019s sleep. It was much needed!<\/p>\n
The bliss only lasts for so long, though, as end of the year assignments and activities begin cropping up constantly during reading period. I have two more papers due over the course of the next week, as well as three exams during our finals period, which means I\u2019ll definitely be working!<\/p>\n
Outside of class, though, there are also a lot of fun social events and activities going on, which means students are usually busy all day despite not having classes this week. Tomorrow night, for example, is the \u201cFive House Formal\u201d \u2013 as you might have guessed, five of the upperclassmen Houses are joining together to run a giant formal downtown Boston. As further evidence of how hectic reading period can be, there are probably a dozen end-of-semester performances going on this weekend. I went to see my friends in Spring Awakening and Little Shop of Horrors<\/a> Thursday and Friday, and am going to the Kuumba<\/a> (gospel) concert tonight. It\u2019s definitely busy trying to balance everything! The mix of school and fun is what makes reading period great, though \u2013 I\u2019m strangely looking forward to the next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the joy of Thanksgiving break (which was MUCH needed \u2013 so nice to be home!) I was unlucky enough to come back to school to an extremely large pile of work and a big ol\u2019 presentation for my Social Studies tutorial. Not so fun! So needless to say, I\u2019ve spent the week cracking down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29772],"tags":[55769,55768,29830],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carolines-blog","tag-hrdc","tag-kuumba","tag-reading-period"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/collegeadmissionsstudentblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}