University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Classes: the daily battle The alarm rings, and as you drag yourself out of a peaceful sleep, you wonder what in the world possessed you to register for an eight o ' clock class. Thoughts of skipping it today seem tempting. No, better not you have to go, to copy someone ' s Calc homework to turn in for your 9. Well, you might be a few minutes late, but you ' ll make it. And maybe by lunchtime, you ' ll be awake enough to realize that your engineering prof switched classrooms on you, and you spent 50 minutes listening to a lecture on money and management. Maybe it ' s not too late to switch into business, you wonder, as you walk past the lines of traffic leading from O ' Shag, to Hayes-Healy, to Nieuwland, and back to the dorms. Why do classes have to be so boring today? It was just starting to get interesting. One of your profs almost cracked a joke, and the guy sitting in front of you fell asleep and knocked all of his books on the floor. Oh you realize that you have lab this afternoon. Maybe you can start a water battle with the girl across from you. Or concoct some new potion capable of blowing up the lab. THAT will make that teacher give you the A you deserve. But, after a frustrating 5 hours of finding out nothing except that your unknown is unknown, you drag yourself home, ready to sleep again. The battle continues, as your fight with the alarm clock will begin tomorrow morning, promptly at 7 o ' clock. 14 CIS

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There ' s the bell. With a sigh of relief, you jump from your seat, with the new energy that the end of a day of classes can bring. The walk to your dorm is easy and carefree, because the pressure of the day is over. Almost. The smile fades from your lips as you open the door to your room, and discover a desk piled high with what looks like a long night ahead. There ' s a paper due tomorrow, and a Physics test - which will involve memorizing 4, 5, or 6 chapters, and ten million homework assignments to do. Only 21 more hours to go. No problem. That means you have five hours to write and type the paper, one and a half hours to study each chapter, one-half hour to wolf down dinner, four and a half hours for homework, and maybe two hours to sleep until the test. After dinner, it ' s time to buckle down. Packing up your books, you head for the upper echelons of the library. Encountering a pre-med camping out in a carrel on the 13th floor, you make a hasty retreat. (After all, that dirty look was directed toward your squeaky chair, wasn ' t it?) The roar from the 2nd floor lobby lures you, but the social hour has no appeal tonight. Next stop: LaFortune. All the tables seem to be taken up by people studying with friends, and someone is playing the piano in the ballroom. You decide it ' s about time to check out your dorm ' s study lounge. Here, you sink into a comfortable couch, and write your paper between falling asleep and making periodic trips to food sales. You trek upstairs to type the paper, and it ' s time to leaf through the test material. The homework is almost completed, and you finally crawl into bed, as the sun begins to peek through your window curtains. Studying is just another part of The Routine 16 Studymg