‘finals’
Sophomore Year Comes to a Close
May. 6, 2011—That’s that. I have completed my second year at Vanderbilt! At 5:00 PM on Wednesday afternoon, I finished my Intro to Biological Sciences (BSCI 110B) final which marked the beginning of summer! This morning I packed up my remaining belongings and left for my hometown of Auburn, Alabama. While on the road I began to mentally compile...
More Study Breaks!
Apr. 29, 2011—Studying for finals can get pretty boring/intense/repetitive, so I try to make sure I take sufficient breaks to maintain sanity.
Study Breaks!
Apr. 29, 2011—Finals week has once again struck Vanderbilt as you’ve probably seen from the posts of my fellow bloggers. This, combined with the ever-looming task of packing and making sure everything is in order for the end of the year means that every once and a while, a study break is essential.
Nashville Public Library
Apr. 29, 2011—As a Vanderbilt student. I have access to eight different libraries on campus. Even with all these options, every now and then I want to do something a little different. Today, my roommate Temple and fellow tour guide Brett and I ventured downtown to the Nashville Public Library‘s main library on Church Street. After parking...
The Beauty of Finals Week
Apr. 28, 2011—Last year, I posted a blog about some of positives to finals week at Vandy. This list still holds true a year later (click here to read the post), but I wanted to take a minute to share some of great things that have been going on recently around campus. Click here to read Erica’s...
Finals Warfare
Apr. 26, 2011—The counterweight trebuchet is a medieval siege weapon used to fling large projectiles at or from castle walls, and was one of the most accurate and revolutionary weapons of the Middle Ages.
Here We Go Again
Dec. 2, 2010—The end of the year stress has officially hit. You’d think by my fifth semester here I would be used to it by now. But no, it gets me every time. Looking ahead the next couple of weeks is very overwhelming. Final papers, presentations, exams, oh my. Good news though: I don’t have to do...
How to Survive Finals Week 101
Apr. 29, 2010—Being in the middle of my 6th finals week here at Vanderbilt, I thought I would impart some of the wisdom I have learned over the past three years about how to survive this stressful week. Each of my finals weeks have been very different; some have been full of tests, while others full of...
Finals Week
Dec. 22, 2009—Finals week: full of long days, late nights, caffeine, junk food, and plenty of stress. Some people are more fortunate than others when this week rolls around. I was one of the luckier few. With a presentation and test earlier in December, I was left with only a take home test and two finals as...
Finals Week Sanity
Dec. 16, 2009—Being that it is Finals week, I would like to take a small study break and enlist some help from my keen eavesdropping ability to being some funny quotes from common areas around campus. “If I see another math equation I am gonna go Crazy like Issace Newton claiming that Chuck Norris doesn’t push the...