University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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As the term paper deadline looms close, the process of dragging heavy tomes from dusty shelves and scrawling volumes of pertinent facts begins. Although some students manage to do last-minute studying in the Mason Hall alley, most succumb to temptations. Baby ' s antics ore more interesting than bluebook cramming, pausing to watch provides pleasant break.

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Costumed coeds bounce across the Diag with en- thusiasm, in a peppy sales pitch for a campus show. Kilted bagpiper bleated strains of MUSKET ' s Brigadoon across campus.

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Time, Texts and Tension Tension creeps in everywhere, like a quivering shroud Which mantles a mysterious, masked item called The Exam. Even the most happy-go-lucky student pauses while partying, Suddenly faced with a grim realization; Finals are coming! Now there is no stopping the racing hands of the clock; Lights blaze forth a wordless desperation far into the night. Every library is thronged with pressure-driven students. They peer intently at heavy tomes and illegible notes, Lamenting the important lectures they so heedlessly cut And the readings which gathered dust on the bookshelf. Nerves, nerves. They twist a lock of hair; bite their lips; Chew pencils to splinters; light still another cigarette. Some find themselves glancing restlessly about at friends, Or becoming irritated by the incessant rustle of papers. They flee to their rooms: rigid and motionless at a desk, Curled up on their beds, or sprawled across a scatterrug, They scan and memorize, cramming sixteen weeks into hours. The dread days arrive: Each classroom is a sea of bent heads. Time flies, marked by chalked scratches on a blackboard. Soon the ordeal ends; halls echo with laughter; hope returns.