Hey ya'll = )
So April is winding down this week which is a big red flag for the beginning of FINALS! Ew! Yes, finals are not the best part of college but it is needed and after you get through them you feel MUCH better about yourself. At least that is how I feel through all my many semesters of finals (being a senior I have been through many a final weeks!) This semester my finals are not that difficult or spread out. Yesterday I took my World Religion final in our last class. I often enjoy finals that we can take in class, either the last or second to last class, because that is one last final time during finals week I do NOT have to stress about! Tonight I have my American Sign Language final. I think that is going to be the most difficult final I have. It is challenging as learning any new language is but hopefully I do ok! Fingers crossed!!!! Then Friday is the official start of finals week (the first friday it is known on the schedule as next friday there wil be finals taking place too.) I take my Sociology final which I will be studying even more for tonight! Hopefully that goes well too. Then I am one paper away from completely being done with my undergraduate studies!!! WHOOT WHOOT!!!!!!!!!! It will feel so great! So much time and energy spent with papers, tests, quizzes, projects, presentations... but it is soo very rewarding in the end that is for sure. Although it is a bitter sweet time because you live an instituion you called home for many years. That this school almost feels like my real home and my house I grew up in feels like a vacation. It is weird how it all works out in the end... but it is definately worth the ride.
Many of my friends are a little tense right now as finals week brings out that stressed side of everyone out! Although the school does try to help students relax in many ways. Tonight they hold a "midnight" breakfast where we can get a nice late night snack served to us by our own faculty and teachers! It is pretty neat! Another way the faculty shows us that they care! Yesterday, the last day of classes, the SPCA brings in animals for the students to play with and pet. Which I lovedd!! I love animals. There were cats, bunnies, and dogs = ) It was a fun time! Next week will be very stressful for everyone.. but for me I am more stressed out right now! Since I have finals tonight and tomorrow!!!
Yesterday was a tough day for me as it was my last day at my work study job. I have been working there for two years and have gotten to really enjoy spending time with the people I work with. They have showed me many different aspects that the marketing communications department does for Misericordia University that I never knew about. I got a "behind the scenes" look that I grasped a lot of knowledge from. I truly am going to miss going there next year to work. Those past 2 years working there I enjoyed tremendously by learning new things and getting to be a part of many incredible individuals' lives that work there. I feel I have truly been blessed to met some of them and I wish them all the best of luck in the future years. I am definately going to keep in touch with them.. even when they do "replace" me next year haha!
Well, I am off to go study some more. This week needs to be over quickly haha! I just want to get these finals over with so I can graduate and start summer timesss = ) Good luck to everyone else who is taking finals!!! Take care!
Stay Safe = )