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Last semester, I did all my readings for one of my classes. I participated in class discussions, and I went above and beyond — surprising even myself — and found myself consistently in office hours. My work ethic made it seem like I had a steady grasp on the class. I understood
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Dead week is finally on the horizon, so the Clog has created a little playlist to calm all your pre-final nerves and jitters.
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Depending on how you did on your midterms, you might want to get a little fucked up. Take this quiz to find out exactly how fucked up you should get.
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Even though the administration insists that RRR stands for reading, reveiw and recitation, those three words don’t fully capture the desperation and dread associated with dead week. A more updated interpretation of RRR is necessary in order to describe the UC Berkeley student experience in the week leading up to finals.
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Dead week all too often becomes seven days of procrastination. Fortunately, our current technological age offers us tools to help us actually get our sh*t done.
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After all of the effort you’ve put into studying for your midterms, writing your essays and solving those problem sets, your journey is still incomplete. There’s one more hurdle to climb — finals.
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“It’s a beautiful day to take an exam.” When you wake up as Derek Shepherd, the legendary character from “Grey’s Anatomy,” chances are your final is perfectly scheduled to be in the afternoon and in a location only 10 feet away from you. As Derek Shepherd, you didn’t bother studying for
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May the fourth is one of the best days of the year. It’s not just a clever pun (“May the fourth be with you”), but also, if you didn’t know already, today is actually Star Wars day. Yeah we get it, before “The Force Awakens” came out, it felt like
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Yes, finals are approaching. Yes, those pesky final papers and projects are almost due. Yes, this is the craziest time of the semester. Instead of dreading those end-of-semester assignments so much, however, tackle those bad boys and finish up your school responsibilities with the intent of treating yourself amazingly afterward. Having
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We have been training our brains all semester for finals week, and the finish line is in sight. But first, we need to survive the aptly named dead week. We might all be tempted to interpret the whole week of “no classes” to mean “party and watch TV all day,”
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