Test-lag

So I've been thinking a lot lately about what a lot of us college students experience right around midterms and finals. Jet-setters get jet-lag. Test-takes get test-lag. Check it:

I had a pretty epic accounting assignment to tackle that was due yesterday at 2PM. So, in hellacollege fashion, I got the the library around 11PM, got wired on caffiene, and busted out the assignment until about 5 o'clock. I left the library, got a quick bite, and turned the assignment into my professor's office, and went to bed. I woke up about 4PM. I went to my 6-9 PM class, grabbed a bite with some of my classmates, fumbled around a little bit, and got into bed around 11:30 PM. Alarm goes off at 2:30 AM and I'm at the library by 3. Here it is 4AM, I've been studying for an hour, and I have 6 hours till my Marketing final.

Now I looked on wikipedia, which as far as I'm concerned is the authority on everything (they monitor that ish, I trust 'em) and they describe jet lag as follows...

"When traveling across a number of time zones, the body clock will be out of sync with the destination time, as it experiences daylight and darkness contrary to the rhythms to which it has grown accustomed: the body's natural pattern is upset, as the rhythms that dictate times for eating, sleeping, hormone regulation and body temperature variations no longer correspond to the environment..."

Well test lag as I've discovered is when the body clock is out of sync with the college student's normal environment. We wake when its dark, and sleep when its light. I feel like a flippin' vampire. I'm eating breakfast at 2AM and dinner at 11PM. I'm just excited for 6PM today when I can pass out until it's time to go celebrate a week well-fought. Maybe I'll have ice cream or something. Probably or something (Pabst).

Anyway, when describing how screwed up you cramming and sleeping schedules are, describe what time zone your in. For example, "bro, I'm test-lagging Hong Kong right now", or "Man that Rockstar-Latte coctail got me all the way to Kiev with my cram sesh lash night". Make sense?

Hope finals are going well for are you quarter-system friends and exams are going well around spring break for everyone else. Let me know what time zone you're test lagging

Hella Test-Lag

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