It’s only a three day week! That’s all I’ve been telling myself as I prepare for a tough week of two exams, a project and a lab report! Columbus Day has allowed for a lovely four day weekend which flew by as I celebrated friend’s birthdays and visited an alum. The weather was beautiful on the cape, a nice sunny, crisp fall weekend only to be abruptly reminded of the looming deadlines ahead when I trudged to work in the pouring rain this morning!

It’s funny to hear the talk around campus of the FME exams, the OEM and MCE deadlines and be reminded of the whirlwind panic that I was once sucked into as well. I even admit to falling into that trap still! But then I remember that I’ve gone to class, done the work, and will study and realize that’s helped me make it this far, and I’m not about to fail out of college. It seems easy to fall into that hole when everyone else around you is studying and panicking over the same exam for the same classes, while juniors and seniors have a bit more freedom from the widespread scares of the stream drama. It doesn’t help that the word midterm is strongly misused, as at Babson you tend to have two of them! but thanks to that, the freak outs tend to lessen as the semester goes on!