The dog days are (almost) over

Alright, revelation time, everyone. Once we get back from Thanksgiving break, it's go-time, the home stretch of the semester. Fewer than twenty days separate us from winter break, depending on when your finals end. And the time before Thanksgiving break, at least for me, has always been the dog days of the semester. The period of time lasting a couple weeks where you're just done with the semester. Projects, tests, papers, homework assignments...just not about that life. But Thanksgiving break comes and goes, you spend time with whoever you spend time with, you come back, and BAM it's December and nearing the end of the semester. For me, it's three unit tests (two of which are during finals), a cumulative final, a paper, and two projects until I am done with the Fall 2013 semester.

But I started thinking about it...for us seniors, this period of time is also the dog days of our time at Stonehill. I can't speak for everyone by saying that this is my 7th semester on campus (talking to you, abroad folk), but everyone has spent 3+ years calling themselves a student at Stonehill College. There is exactly 1/6 of the semester left - 19 of 114 days in the semester. Regarding total time spent at Stonehill, it's a little closer to 14.6%. Which means that for the only time in our Stonehill careers, we will face the dog days of the semester and of our careers. My point is, where we're at in the semester is proportionally the same as where we're at in our time at Stonehill.

And I've definitely felt this toll in the twofold nature that it has at this point in time; we have to think about the usual slew of homework/papers/tests/etc., but it's also post-grad plans, living arrangements, job possibilities, and everything else that comes with graduation. So it's tough, it's definitely tough. But if there's one thing that we (as seniors) have learned in our time at Stonehill, it's that you make it out alive. We're here in the fall of senior year because we've made it through six semesters so far. So during these last 2-3 weeks, if you feel the affects of the dog days, believe that you'll make it out soon. Because fewer than twenty days separate us from winter break, but also from the best semester that we'll have at Stonehill.