Mid-Term

Where are you right now? Where to next?

I sometimes still feel that awful feeling. 

College. Freshman year. It’s been an amazing run so far. So much partying and frolicking and football and fun. 

And then there’s this moment in October. And you’re up and about looking for the next fun thing, but…no one is around. 

Wait, where did everybody go? 

Why is it so quiet?

Why am I the only one waking around ready to hoot and holler?

Hello?! 

And then it hits you like a piano falling from a 5th floor walk-up on a San Francisco street…

Mid-term. 

Not the political Mid-Terms, though they are here, too.

No, first semester mid-term. And mid-term exams looming. 

And you know where everybody is? Studying. 

That’s right, the under-grad library is packed. The grad library is packed. The law library is packed. The Stacks are packed! 

And what are you doing besides being a dumb-shit? 

You haven’t looked at a syllabus in weeks. You haven’t cracked a text book. 

It’s that feeling. 

Once I experienced that feeling freshman year I never wanted to feel it again. 

So I formed a new habit. 

I started to do a little bit every day. 

What can I do in an hour in the am? What can I do in the evening? 

Sunday morning? Ok. Tuesday eve? Cool. Thursday late afternoon? Random, but a good time get a little studying in. 

I brought this into my career. I figured out morning was my moment and I did a little of whatever I had to do in the morning. 

It’s Mid-Term now. 

Where are you? 

Are you in the library studying? Or are you on the Quad looking around for fellow knuckle-heads?

#MondayMotivation