As y'all probably guessed from my last entry, I was a very happy person Sunday night.  All Giants fans, can I hear a "Yoo-hoo!!!"?  All I could think of in those last 2 minutes and some-30 odd seconds was I really hoped that my Eli could get a really good drive down the field and not lose the ball.  It wasn't much time, but I knew it was long enough for my favorite team to get the edge on the Patriots...and boy did they get it! 

So, with all the football talk going around from Super Bowl Sunday recaps, I got to thinking how school is much like a football season.  Let me give you guys a sample play-by-play...

It's been three weeks into the semester.  The notes are in the books.  Lecture time is over, and the professors have called you into the field...errr...I mean, they've called you in for the test.  It's exam time, GAME TIME!

Being a student is just like being an athlete, except it's more on the mental side of things as supposed to a physical one.  Class lectures are like meetings to go over the playbook and the game plan.  Classwork and homework is like practice--on the field with the rest of the team or a personal workout at the gym.  Quizzes are like scrimmages, while the tests and exams are your big season games.  And, of course, who can forget the big Super Bowl event of academia...YOUR FINALS?!?

College and NFL football seasons may be over, but the academic field turf is only beginning its call.   Like I said, being three weeks into the semester, professors are expecting a lot of their students with exams pretty much creeping on by.  It's just like practicing on the field those first couple of weeks into the season.  Before you know it,  your team's first game is right around the corner, and you better be ready!  Athletes pack their gym bags with their cleats, uniform, and helmet, while I pack my bookbag with my calculator, eraser, and definitely several #2 pencils!  (You can never have too many #2 pencils or extra lead.  Like I said, BE PREPARED!  The last thing you want is to have to get up and sharpen your pencil and disrupt the entire class! Oh, those horrible stares and glares!!!)

Now, y'all may not be as excited about tests, exams, and finals as you would be for those football games, but as a student you should always try to keep an optimistic and enthusiastic approach when these things make their way thru the calendar.  There's nothing worse than feeling completely bummed and discouraged about an exam.  I'm not saying that I cheer for when exam times come as I do with Gamecock and Giants football games, but I don't try to get too bogged down about them.  So, anyways, now that I've used up a good amount of time giving you my little blurb about classes and such...I should head out and get my studying on.  It's GAME TIME, baby!

Catch y'all later on the flipside, Gamecocks!