I should be done. We all should be done, and we would be done if Otterbein hadn’t gone from quarters to semesters. Instead, we had a little less than a week to relax, go home, see the family and stress out over the assignments and exams that waited for us back at Otterbein.
Personally, I looked forward to the long break we got when we were on quarters. There was tons of time to go home, come back to Westerville, go home again, see friends from all over the place, do all my Christmas shopping and get a job doing seasonal work because I had no homework or classes to worry about. Exams were over and I could enjoy the holidays not having to think about my big, long list of things to do waiting on my desk at home.
Well, I don’t know about you, but this break threw me off. I didn’t know what to do with myself. I sat at home, aware that I could very well do some school work, but this was supposed to be a vacation, not a prerequisite to get myself ready for exams. I was ready to stay home and get into a schedule that didn’t revolve around school.
I know that some of you are thinking the same things I am. We also have one other little thing on our minds — where’s the motivation? I have absolutely no motivation to do anything anymore. Nothing is harder than pushing yourself to do something you really don’t want to do.
“It’s really hard to go home for Thanksgiving, then having to come back and be motivated to keep going. I’m so used to being done,” senior early childhood education major Kelsey McMahon said.
The only plus side about not having a super-long break is not getting bored. It doesn’t take much to get most people bored, and a long break calls for long-term boredom if you don’t have a job, your friends are gone, etc.
But, then again, when it boils down to being bored or doing homework, I pick being bored.
This new semester thing is going to take a while to get used to, and while I hate the breaks that it involves, it’s not going anywhere. So I leave you with this: Good luck, think positive thoughts and get things that you can get done finished as early as possible. Even though it’s not what you want to be doing, it will probably make the upcoming break a bit more relaxing.
